{"id":139,"date":"2008-12-07T22:12:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T06:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/?p=139"},"modified":"2008-12-07T22:12:01","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T06:12:01","slug":"two-poems-for-forthcoming-arbutus-art-book-with-vancouver-photographer-tina-schliessler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Poems for forthcoming arbutus art book with photographer Tina Schliessler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_4675.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-148\" title=\"img_4675\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_4675-112x150.jpg?resize=112%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>VELOCITY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tremulous leaves quiver<\/p>\n<p>but barmy birds eye<\/p>\n<p>pistachios, fooled<\/p>\n<p>by the flying V disciple&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>green skin peeping out<\/p>\n<p>curling red pants of shell.<\/p>\n<p>Crutch free at last<\/p>\n<p>he climbs sunward,<\/p>\n<p>higher than any other<\/p>\n<p>for a glorious hour<\/p>\n<p>of ecstasy, whooping hubris<\/p>\n<p>before seeping sap loss,<\/p>\n<p>Icarus molting,<\/p>\n<p>plummeting boughs.<\/p>\n<p>Helios thrill killing.<\/p>\n<p>Winking navel<\/p>\n<p>above the fork<\/p>\n<p>must heft life up<\/p>\n<p>out of the maelstrom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CLAMOUR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bark wattling,<\/p>\n<p>coat warping, woofing.<\/p>\n<p>Waning cockle stirrings,<\/p>\n<p>withering crack,<\/p>\n<p>lowering maven<\/p>\n<p>trembles in a torrent of milk<\/p>\n<p>mist, shudders at clonks,<\/p>\n<p>crane calls,<\/p>\n<p>dire sawing, rattling sheep<\/p>\n<p>to slaughter<\/p>\n<p>swarthy timbers falling.<\/p>\n<p>Thunder in the chapel<\/p>\n<p>beckons ample pressure,<\/p>\n<p>staunchly wicked bush<\/p>\n<p>germs, seething hands,<\/p>\n<p>grizzled calculations shouted,<\/p>\n<p>fleeting bounty,<\/p>\n<p>illusory beneficence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VELOCITY Tremulous leaves quiver but barmy birds eye pistachios, fooled by the flying V disciple&#8217;s green skin peeping out curling red pants of shell. Crutch free at last he climbs sunward, higher than any other for a glorious hour of ecstasy, whooping hubris before seeping sap loss, Icarus molting, plummeting boughs. Helios thrill killing. Winking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[31,149,236,325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}