{"id":95,"date":"2006-03-31T23:29:26","date_gmt":"2006-04-01T04:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=95"},"modified":"2006-04-01T21:20:14","modified_gmt":"2006-04-02T03:20:14","slug":"spring-in-the-driveway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/03\/31\/spring-in-the-driveway\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring in the driveway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sun dances on the driveway<br \/>\nwhich simmers under the unexpect baking<br \/>\nhaving emerged from its cosy ice blanket<br \/>\njust a week ago. The air is summer warm<br \/>\nPappa in his tee shirt is vacuuming the car mats<!--more--><br \/>\ngives one a whack against the foundation<br \/>\ndust from winter boots puffs off the cement<br \/>\nhe disappears head first into the back seat<br \/>\nthe corrugated hose snakes between his knees<br \/>\nhis rump sways with the noisy effort<br \/>\nmaps a few mini trucks his plastic ice scraper<br \/>\ntumble out onto the asphalt. He turns off the vacuum<br \/>\nstreet sounds bird calls return so stark,<br \/>\nalarming after winter\u2019s muffling snow<br \/>\na few twitchy dark dry sticks of last summer\u2019s columbines<br \/>\nstand mute in the spectator gallery along the foundation<br \/>\nit strikes me that I might get my bike out<br \/>\nyou want to help get me the car keys<br \/>\nhe takes them and moves the car carefully<br \/>\nclear of the house. Exhaust fumes perfume<br \/>\nthe driveway with their acrid rubbery mist.<br \/>\nHe drags the garden hose out of the garage<br \/>\nfights the stiff tangled coils spreads it along the pavement<br \/>\nturns it on the leaks sprout arcs just miss drenching<br \/>\ntwo passing oblivious bare-shouldered beauties<br \/>\nbut spray a jovial gent who finds it refreshing<br \/>\nthat was refreshing he says smiling<br \/>\nsoon the car is drenched lathered rinsed and chamoised<br \/>\nand we are out admiring it Momma in her slippers<br \/>\non the driveway I giggle Momma in her slippers<br \/>\non the driveway in March Pappa giggles<br \/>\non the driveway in March I wonder about my bike<br \/>\nsupper is ready maybe tomorrow<br \/>\nit snows next day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun dances on the driveway which simmers under the unexpect baking having emerged from its cosy ice blanket just a week ago. The air is summer warm Pappa in his tee shirt is vacuuming the car mats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","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=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}