{"id":32024,"date":"2017-08-05T09:57:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=32024"},"modified":"2017-08-05T09:57:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:57:32","slug":"intertwined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/intertwined\/","title":{"rendered":"Intertwined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>we borrowed a little soil<br \/>\nto grow food around our<br \/>\nlittle house<\/p>\n<p>the wind, which had blown strong<br \/>\noff Bellingham Bay<br \/>\nall winter and spring,<br \/>\nwas still now.<\/p>\n<p>neighbors walk out at low tide,<br \/>\nfrom Locust Beach,<br \/>\nwhen the cold waters recede.<\/p>\n<p>fires are burning all over British Columbia<br \/>\nover 1 million acres of trees have<br \/>\nsizzled and popped.<\/p>\n<p>the air is eerie from particulate<br \/>\nrefracting light,<br \/>\nas if a nuclear war had<br \/>\nflashed across the horizons<\/p>\n<p>we kept inside to avoid<br \/>\nbreathing the noxious air.<br \/>\nthat smelled faintly of<br \/>\ncharred dreams.<\/p>\n<p>but I went out to pick<br \/>\nsummer blackberries,<br \/>\nhigh in a thicket above<br \/>\nSqualicum Park,<br \/>\nreaching high as I can<br \/>\nfor the plumpest ones,<br \/>\nwilling to be scratched<br \/>\nby their thorny arms.<\/p>\n<p>happy to work near the<br \/>\nhoney bees,<br \/>\nplying the wild pea flowers,<br \/>\nintertwined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we borrowed a little soil to grow food around our little house the wind, which had blown strong off Bellingham Bay all winter and spring, was still now. neighbors walk out at low tide, from Locust Beach, when the cold waters recede. fires are burning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32024","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\/1130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32038,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32024\/revisions\/32038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}