{"id":4018,"date":"2014-04-03T20:43:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T00:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=4018"},"modified":"2014-04-03T20:43:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T00:43:08","slug":"sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/04\/03\/sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"Sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glimpse at a flashing diamond<br \/>\ngripped by gold eccentric<br \/>\nbut we must work other stone<br \/>\ncrude, rough: solid basalt<br \/>\nforged four billion years ago<br \/>\nnear the galactic cauldron of our sun<\/p>\n<p>We orbit the mass<br \/>\nstudy every surface<br \/>\nto discern<br \/>\nthe hint of sprouting soul within<br \/>\nwe are so young<br \/>\nour hands, hammers, chisels and eyes<br \/>\nunschooled<\/p>\n<p>The hammer swings<br \/>\ncycles repeat until<br \/>\nrain and ice and wind and waves<br \/>\nand our own chisel and mallet<br \/>\nhands callused and bleeding<br \/>\npain in our fists<br \/>\nand in our eyes<br \/>\nstrike off a wrong chip here<br \/>\na right one there<br \/>\nelemental<br \/>\nchip too much here, too little there<br \/>\nperfection is at best an accident.<\/p>\n<p>Finally old hands tap ever more gently,<br \/>\nold eyes work by touch<br \/>\nthe artist spirals close<br \/>\nsees deep within the ever<br \/>\nadamantine basalt<br \/>\ndiamond, pure cut.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/04\/01\/cruel-gruel-2\/napowrimo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4009\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4009\" alt=\"NaPoWriMo\" src=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NaPoWriMo-150x136.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NaPoWriMo-150x136.png 150w, https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NaPoWriMo-220x200.png 220w, https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NaPoWriMo-330x300.png 330w, https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NaPoWriMo.png 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NaPoWriMo 3: how we shape our lives and selves together. <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/04\/03\/sculpture\/\">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":[890,3],"tags":[997,66],"class_list":["post-4018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-napowrimo","category-poetry","tag-aging","tag-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018","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=4018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4019,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/revisions\/4019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}