{"id":4074,"date":"2014-04-15T22:10:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T02:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=4074"},"modified":"2014-04-15T22:10:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T02:10:25","slug":"leaves-in-sunlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/04\/15\/leaves-in-sunlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaves in Sunlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The thick green moss submerges fallen old wood<br \/>\nmuffles thought, swallows light and sound<br \/>\nand softens rounds and smooths all but<br \/>\nthe hard old verticals of trunk<br \/>\npungent pine and raunchy chocolate-scented basswood<br \/>\nblack walnut and oaks and sugar maple<\/p>\n<p>Does the walnut spring from the mouth of a corpse<br \/>\nIs the basswood destined to be a basket<br \/>\nWill fire eat all but the elder trees<\/p>\n<p>Life is green here<br \/>\nsun and rain are sustenance<br \/>\na scattered ray of sunlight breaks<br \/>\nthrough the leaves overhead and spots<br \/>\ndown on a single purple anemone<\/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 15: I have always felt very different in the forest, as if my senses are extended far beyond their function in other circumstances. Are the trees listening? <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/04\/15\/leaves-in-sunlight\/\">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":[62,132],"class_list":["post-4074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-napowrimo","category-poetry","tag-nature","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074","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=4074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4075,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions\/4075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}