{"id":868,"date":"2008-04-01T09:40:53","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T14:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=868"},"modified":"2008-04-04T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T21:49:09","slug":"the-geology-of-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/04\/01\/the-geology-of-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"the geology of snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>old snow like scuzzy old sox lies along streets<br \/>\npiled laundry waiting for mom to take charge<br \/>\nlast week a plow scooped the last edge off<br \/>\nnow the gray torn sedimentary cotton lies by the road<br \/>\nlike petticoats dragged by a whore around a muddy mining camp<\/p>\n<p>you can count the history of winter in the sandwiched layers<br \/>\nhere a thick fall there a thaw a series of inconsequential events<br \/>\neach with its layer of grit and specks of garbage<br \/>\nthat sun and rain and time have beaten down to spring<br \/>\nwe have inhaled such crud day after day all winter<br \/>\nno wonder we spewed those hacking coughs<br \/>\nour lungs darker than the filters on scattered butts<br \/>\nin the scuzzy splashed and detested gutters<\/p>\n<p>in a museum of history some day spring crud<br \/>\nwill be laid out like tree rings like sedimentary rocks<br \/>\nin trays labeling the geology of past winter woes in spring<\/p>\n<table style=\"width:194px;\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" style=\"height:194px;background:url(http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/f\/img\/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.ca\/DouglasJHill\/MeltingSnow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.google.ca\/DouglasJHill\/R_ZtskYDJUE\/AAAAAAAAAdQ\/NjVdi0_r5jE\/s160-c\/MeltingSnow.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" style=\"margin:1px 0 0 4px;\"\/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.ca\/DouglasJHill\/MeltingSnow\" style=\"color:#4D4D4D;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;\">melting snow<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>old snow like scuzzy old sox lies along streets piled laundry waiting for mom to take charge last week a plow scooped the last edge off now the gray torn sedimentary cotton lies by the road like petticoats dragged by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/04\/01\/the-geology-of-snow\/\">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":[3,28],"tags":[374,63,163],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-snow","tag-landscapes","tag-seasons","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","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=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}