{"id":4341,"date":"2017-01-26T23:59:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T04:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=4341"},"modified":"2017-01-26T23:59:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T04:59:29","slug":"date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2017\/01\/26\/date\/","title":{"rendered":"Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not unlike a beach hammock<br \/>\nthis vinyl and chrome articulated<br \/>\nhead rest, back rest, bum rest<br \/>\nleg rest, arm rest swoop on which I lounge.<\/p>\n<p>I open wide, surrender: her gloved<br \/>\nfingers approach, bearing the sharp,<br \/>\nshaped needle pick she will wield<br \/>\nto scale and clean my teeth.<\/p>\n<p>The spatter beads my lenses:<br \/>\nI see as a housefly: cannot focus<br \/>\non her eyes above that surgical mask;<br \/>\nshe hovers, multiplied, before me.<\/p>\n<p>Water sprays, the suction&#8217;s<br \/>\nwhite noise dissects me.<br \/>\nHer softness nudges my arm<br \/>\nher fingers probe my mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Her fierce tenderness<br \/>\nholds me: I cannot leave<br \/>\nI think her name is Calypso.<br \/>\nWe meet again in six months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2017\/01\/22\/time-shift\/facebookgraphicverse_j\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4337\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4337\" src=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/FacebookGraphicVerse_j-150x79.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/FacebookGraphicVerse_j-150x79.png 150w, https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/FacebookGraphicVerse_j.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the uncomfortable can be an adventure, if you understand it. <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2017\/01\/26\/date\/\">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":[3,416],"tags":[1013,66],"class_list":["post-4341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-dental","tag-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341","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=4341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4342,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341\/revisions\/4342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}