{"id":320,"date":"2006-10-01T11:00:28","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/01\/on-having-read\/"},"modified":"2006-10-02T10:07:14","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T14:07:14","slug":"on-having-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/01\/on-having-read\/","title":{"rendered":"On Having Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The book, closed, lying harmless<br \/>\nsmiles briefly at some private joke,<br \/>\nits print silent, all read,<br \/>\nordered like socks in drawers<br \/>\nready to walk, dance, climb, march,<!--more--><br \/>\nbut slumbering now, inert.<\/p>\n<p>But in here, in my brain<br \/>\nits imprint there cascades<br \/>\ntumbles, rejuvenates, surges,<br \/>\nestablishes a place, a cozy<br \/>\nnook, looks out the windows<br \/>\nchecks out the neighbourhood<br \/>\nswirls around, ready to party.<\/p>\n<p>Some books settle in, subside,<br \/>\nslide into empty rooms, disappear;<br \/>\nothers take hold, redecorate the<br \/>\nlivingroom, reroof, paint the outside,<br \/>\nlandscape, build decks, extensions,<br \/>\nand start sprouting seedlings.<\/p>\n<p>Of the twenty books and change<br \/>\nI have read this summer,<br \/>\ntwo have really shaken up the joint:<br \/>\nthey are still racing out for new<br \/>\npatterns, colours, getting ready<br \/>\nfor relations to arrive.<\/p>\n<p>For this, I read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book, closed, lying harmless smiles briefly at some private joke, its print silent, all read, ordered like socks in drawers ready to walk, dance, climb, march,<\/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-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","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=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}