{"id":1711,"date":"2009-03-31T08:30:42","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T12:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2009-04-12T10:21:51","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T14:21:51","slug":"dreaming-with-fishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/03\/31\/dreaming-with-fishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming with fishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In memory of Tamia Doll<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She would be out in the boat<br \/>\nnear Summerstown<br \/>\noutwitting sundry perch.<br \/>\nShe would watch the other boats<br \/>\nscattered like distant ducks<br \/>\nat the desultory edges of weed beds.<\/p>\n<p>When it was impossible<br \/>\nto fish, she would commit<br \/>\npainting:<br \/>\nsilent boats<br \/>\nscattered like lost stars<br \/>\nat the edges of possibility.<\/p>\n<p>The fingers that twisted<br \/>\nworms and minnows<br \/>\nonto hooks<br \/>\nalso twisted pigment<br \/>\nand oils into<br \/>\nreal dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Some time after she was<br \/>\ndragged down into her own dream,<br \/>\nthey found her works<br \/>\nstacked in her flooded basement,<br \/>\nmuddied beyond even<br \/>\nthe power of sleep<br \/>\nto recall.<\/p>\n<p>[podcast]http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/podcast\/dreaming_with_fishes.mp3[\/podcast]<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1725\" style=\"width: 557px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1725\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1725\" title=\"Fishing . by Tamia Doll\" src=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/09img_6918.jpg\" alt=\"Perch Fishing near Summerstown\" width=\"547\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/09img_6918.jpg 547w, https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/09img_6918-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/em><p id=\"caption-attachment-1725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perch Fishing near Summerstown . by Tamia Doll<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamia Doll died of cancer a few years ago. I discovered her in the early nineties when I was Chair of the now-defunct Seaway Arts Council. I was fairly heavily involved in the local art gallery at the time, and discovered that there was an artist who actually painted the river. (More in http:\/\/platinum-river.blogspot.com ) <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/03\/31\/dreaming-with-fishes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}