{"id":4170,"date":"2014-01-17T02:41:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T01:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2014-01-17T02:41:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T01:41:05","slug":"things-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=4170","title":{"rendered":"Things Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a wonder that the glaciers move,<br \/>\nthe stars melt,<br \/>\nthat we go on falling<br \/>\nlike a river,<br \/>\nlike tears,<br \/>\nlike rain,<br \/>\nlike comets,<br \/>\nlike the sun into the ink of night.<\/p>\n<p>Everything falling into the crevasse<br \/>\nof its own being,<br \/>\ninto its own horizon,<br \/>\nwords ending without pause,<br \/>\nwithout commas.<br \/>\nFire falling into ash,<br \/>\nthe moon disappearing into itself.<br \/>\nIt is a wonder how high the ledge<br \/>\nof notes come from the deep rumbling<br \/>\nof our hearts.<br \/>\nThe volcano of mountains<br \/>\nthat rise inside us,<br \/>\nall going to the shore of the last moment,<br \/>\nthe last embrace,<br \/>\nthe last kiss.<\/p>\n<p>Or is it that falling,<br \/>\nthe leaf coming from its summer song,<br \/>\nthe flake of snow<br \/>\nfrom the expanse of the storm,<br \/>\nare seeds of new ascendings.<br \/>\nHow does a prayer begin,<br \/>\nbut hands raise up,<br \/>\nthe heart opening.<br \/>\nHow does a glacier move<br \/>\nbut from its flurries,<br \/>\nthe storms with lightning soaring.<br \/>\nWhether things fly or fall<br \/>\nwe are where the wave comes calling,<br \/>\nwhere our souls already roam.<br \/>\nAnd truth is the joy of continuous loving,<br \/>\nopening the eyes and singing<br \/>\nwith voices forever young.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a wonder that the glaciers move, the stars melt, that we go on falling like a river, like tears, like rain, like comets,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=4170\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Things Fall<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4170","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\/4170","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=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4171,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions\/4171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}