{"id":59,"date":"2011-09-25T18:56:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T23:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddemuth.nfshost.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2017-12-28T11:27:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T17:27:23","slug":"twenty-fifth_lament_1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-fifth Lament (1986)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought my garden would be growing full<br \/>\nbut I&#8217;m just gathering soil.<br \/>\n&#8212; gathering soil &#8212;<br \/>\nI scrape it from my wandering boots,<br \/>\ngather the dust from the streets,<br \/>\nsieve the filth from the air<br \/>\n&#8212; gather it together &#8212;<br \/>\nThen breath my dreams into it,<br \/>\nlightly whisper my spells upon it,<br \/>\ncleanse it worthy of my garden.<br \/>\n&#8212; and &#8212;<br \/>\nHere it is my life one third gone,<br \/>\nbut I&#8217;m still gathering soil.<br \/>\n&#8212; gathering soil &#8212;<br \/>\nFor the garden I thought<br \/>\nwould be strongly growing,<br \/>\nbrilliantly flowering by now.<br \/>\n&#8212; &#8230; 2011 &#8212;<br \/>\nAt twice twenty five with one third ahead,<br \/>\nthe wandering remains,<br \/>\neven as my garden bears fruit,<br \/>\n&#8212; still gathering soil, gathering soil &#8212;<br \/>\nWith Tina James for Bart James, Louisville<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought my garden would be growing full but I&#8217;m just gathering soil. &#8212; gathering soil &#8212; I scrape it from my wandering boots, gather the dust from the streets, sieve the filth from the air &#8212; gather it together &#8212; Then breath my dreams into it, lightly whisper my spells upon it, cleanse it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-metaphor","category-seasons","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}