{"id":114954,"date":"2022-06-25T19:11:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=114954"},"modified":"2022-06-25T19:13:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:13:35","slug":"a-meadow-in-rocky-mountain-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/a-meadow-in-rocky-mountain-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"A meadow in Rocky Mountain National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<em>Over the place where Long\u2019s Peak and its slightly less imposing companions stand in lofty isolation and invite the summer tourist to their cool retreats, the waves of an open sea once rolled and its tide as ebbed and flowed, unhindered by rock or shoal.\u201d (NPS.gov)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Meadows swim: yellow, periwinkle, and green<\/p>\n<p>framing curlicues of snaking streams<\/p>\n<p>washed down from the mineraled mountain<\/p>\n<p>I touch an icy, bubbling flow and salts eroded from ancient glacial slabs<\/p>\n<p>coat my finger connecting me to those upswept ocean floors<\/p>\n<p>The sea is now the sky, tides of air directing the clouds like swells<\/p>\n<p>reflections wafting through the horseshoe streams<\/p>\n<p>bringing clouds back to earth<\/p>\n<p>Mirrors interrupted rhythmically by waving grasses until<\/p>\n<p>it all feels<\/p>\n<p>like an ancient weaving<\/p>\n<p>like time turned over<\/p>\n<p>like I have always walked here<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOver the place where Long\u2019s Peak and its slightly less imposing companions stand in lofty isolation and invite the summer tourist to their cool retreats, the waves of an open sea once rolled and its tide as ebbed and flowed, unhindered by rock or shoal.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[4909],"class_list":["post-114954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-2022halfmarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115125,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114954\/revisions\/115125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}