{"id":304,"date":"2006-09-21T14:23:20","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T18:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/09\/21\/triptych\/"},"modified":"2007-03-05T08:44:35","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T13:44:35","slug":"triptych","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/09\/21\/triptych\/","title":{"rendered":"Triptych"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mist I<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mist hangs onto edges of the river<br \/>\nLike dust under a couch<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mist II<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My cat enters, purring<br \/>\nAnd posing, twisting<br \/>\nUnder my petting hand;<br \/>\nShe rubs her cheeks on my<br \/>\nScribbler, leaving her scent<br \/>\nAll the while purring<br \/>\nI purr, too; but can&#8217;t hear it<br \/>\nUnless I become very silent<br \/>\nTurn off every sense:<br \/>\nI feel my vibration<br \/>\nAll the tensions at work<br \/>\nDriving my body into its<br \/>\nLearned helplessness syndrome<br \/>\nAnd I obey and become ill<br \/>\nOr well and life goes on purring<br \/>\nBut I have to listen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mist III<\/strong><br \/>\nMist still hangs around<br \/>\nEdges of the river<br \/>\nLike a slip showing under a hem.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 August 26, 2006<\/em> <em>just after dawn<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mist I Mist hangs onto edges of the river Like dust under a couch Mist II My cat enters, purring And posing, twisting Under my petting hand; She rubs her cheeks on my Scribbler, leaving her scent All the while &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/09\/21\/triptych\/\">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":[43,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","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=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}