{"id":598,"date":"2011-07-25T19:59:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T19:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamanicart.com\/?p=598"},"modified":"2011-07-25T19:59:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T19:59:32","slug":"bright-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/2011\/07\/25\/bright-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bright, clear-eyed dream<\/p>\n<p>Came early and was then laid to rest<\/p>\n<p>The garden, the cloth and the clothes<\/p>\n<p>All conspired to be synchronous music<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But the years had to pass, too many of course<\/p>\n<p>Before the flower took root.<\/p>\n<p>It was a flaming gladiolus at first<\/p>\n<p>Then it died down to a vine, obligingly dull.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Underground springs feed gloriously and silently<\/p>\n<p>Memories nurture young and restless longings<\/p>\n<p>We cannot know the work of the gods<\/p>\n<p>As well as we know our own pain<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Suffering brought it back<\/p>\n<p>That beautiful flaming spear, the gladiolus<\/p>\n<p>Now I know the power of the unseen and the unsaid<\/p>\n<p>I know the strength of the young eye.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Carmella Weintraub, 1998<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bright, clear-eyed dream Came early and was then laid to rest The garden, the cloth and the clothes All conspired to be synchronous music &nbsp; &nbsp; But the years had to pass, too many of course Before the flower took root. It was a flaming gladiolus at first Then it died down to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}