{"id":881,"date":"2008-04-11T07:38:04","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T11:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=881"},"modified":"2008-04-11T18:16:57","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T22:16:57","slug":"sometimes-i-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/04\/11\/sometimes-i-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"sometimes I wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Sometimes I wonder<br \/>\nif she ever existed<br \/>\n\u2014found poem<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I wonder<br \/>\nif she ever existed.<br \/>\nOnly a smile now<br \/>\na gesture<br \/>\ncopper hair flashing<br \/>\nshe fades even in dreams<br \/>\nphases out<br \/>\nof memory the way she did<br \/>\narriving from Toronto<br \/>\nPleiades glowing across the night sky<br \/>\nbringing joy and wisdom<br \/>\ntaking\u2014what?<br \/>\n\u2014from us<br \/>\nto that soft receding world<\/p>\n<p>That day she couldn&#8217;t make change<br \/>\ncoins dropped from her fingers<br \/>\nlike memories forgotten after sunset<br \/>\nwhen stars obsessed the sky<br \/>\nand she started smiling<br \/>\nat something whispered<br \/>\nfrom another place<br \/>\nperched near her shoulder<\/p>\n<p>After Pleiades cleared the harbour bar<br \/>\nwe returned to our darkening homes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I wonder if she ever existed \u2014found poem Sometimes I wonder if she ever existed. Only a smile now a gesture copper hair flashing she fades even in dreams phases out of memory the way she did arriving from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/04\/11\/sometimes-i-wonder\/\">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":[45,3],"tags":[87,395,999,66,394],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-poetry","tag-death","tag-grief","tag-illness","tag-relationships","tag-siblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","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=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}