{"id":205,"date":"2006-07-02T07:55:16","date_gmt":"2006-07-02T11:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/07\/02\/sprouts\/"},"modified":"2006-07-03T19:57:34","modified_gmt":"2006-07-03T23:57:34","slug":"sprouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/07\/02\/sprouts\/","title":{"rendered":"sprouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around the island once was a bridle path<br \/>\na mile lined on both sides by sugar maples<br \/>\npicture omega sliced across in thirds<br \/>\nand you have the greytone picture<\/p>\n<p>now animate that by moving pixels<!--more--><br \/>\nsee gentle grooms walking horses<br \/>\nas wooden steamboats chug by<br \/>\ngleaming yachts stop in for dinner<\/p>\n<p>see lavender ladies on side saddle<br \/>\ngents in breeches canter around waving<br \/>\nat white clad badminton or tennis players<br \/>\ndesultory strollers on the path boy with a hoop<\/p>\n<p>a herd of lazy sheep munch grass<br \/>\ntended easily by a lone sheepdog<br \/>\nand the tall maples shimmer gently<br \/>\ngreen and fresh cooling sheltering<\/p>\n<p>the Depression sandwiched between wars<br \/>\nhas left the island weedy abandoned until<br \/>\nventuresome cottagers gradually reclaim the space<br \/>\nits ancient path still lined by thickened maples<\/p>\n<p>the trees are old now ravaged by winds<br \/>\nweighty ice storms disease carpenter ants<br \/>\nleaving only occasional graceful giants still in<br \/>\na sort of vague outline of an esoteric purpose<\/p>\n<p>they still shed blossoms and keys that flutter down<br \/>\nlike little gyros that can land germinate take root<br \/>\nand some indeed do sprout up and in a decade or two<br \/>\nstart reaching skyward for a history of their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around the island once was a bridle path a mile lined on both sides by sugar maples picture omega sliced across in thirds and you have the greytone picture now animate that by moving pixels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","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=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}