{"id":2577,"date":"2016-03-20T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2016-03-15T20:15:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T19:15:08","slug":"is-it-us-we-see-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2577","title":{"rendered":"Is It Us We See?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is the geography of space our world?<br \/>\nLooking into everlasting shadows?<br \/>\nWhat is our entanglement with coasts,<br \/>\npoppies, walls of cloud?<br \/>\nTwilights shed of rain,<br \/>\nand the long breath we take<br \/>\nto love so much.<br \/>\nIf we refuse to close our eyes<br \/>\nthe stars take us.<br \/>\nThe razor\u2019s edge of day and night at<br \/>\nthe edge of our heart\u2019s caring.<br \/>\nBefore voyages or after,<br \/>\nnothing is so terrible as losing love,<br \/>\nor never waking to take<br \/>\none more kiss.<\/p>\n<p>What happens to the atoms<br \/>\nthat make us?<br \/>\nWhere is the information<br \/>\nof our souls going?<br \/>\nThe eminence of that sense<br \/>\nthat furnishes pen and paper<br \/>\nfor a poem,<br \/>\na pipe to play a song,<br \/>\nreed or silver flute.<br \/>\nWords that come of their own accord,<br \/>\nand are of themselves,<br \/>\ncontinents that hold<br \/>\nthe length and breath of dreams.<br \/>\nAre we a world in which space resides?<br \/>\nThe surf that falls upon a shore,<br \/>\nour thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the geography of space our world? Looking into everlasting shadows? What is our entanglement with coasts, poppies, walls of cloud? Twilights shed of rain,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2577\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is It Us We See?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-index-of-all-poems","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4620,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions\/4620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}