{"id":79,"date":"2007-11-15T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=79"},"modified":"2007-11-15T14:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T14:19:00","slug":"a-very-old-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;a very old poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In amidst packing the boxes, an old exercise book. In the old exercise book:<\/p>\n<p>Pink light evening comes in the warm glow<br \/>of car lights<br \/>crisp leaves<br \/>tears are ready, just behind the eyes.<br \/>Back feels flexible, shoulders want to stretch,<br \/>Bump my sides softly,<br \/>Swing childish<br \/>Scatter mittens&#8230;<br \/>Feet striding. Heel hits pavement<br \/>Force I AM HERE I MATTER I WILL<br \/>Mouth&#8230;<br \/>So soft. I move my tongue around&#8230;<br \/>Listen to Bjork, taste Icelandic words<br \/>and breathe.<br \/>Belly is a hive of tiny bees.<br \/>Gentle, Industrious&#8230;perhaps it is really<br \/>A butterfly house<br \/>I want to hold it in&#8230;<br \/>Shaky, wing-like feeling<br \/>It is in my throat.<br \/>All of me, afraid.<br \/>But I am marching on<br \/>Anyway.<br \/>Foot burns itself<br \/>Into a thick bear paw<br \/>and looks for a wild place to walk<br \/>But here I am<br \/>marching it down the road<br \/>Sort of happy<br \/>Pleased by the light&#8230;<br \/>Quite desperate to know<br \/>How endless the pain can be.<\/p>\n<p>I think it is from this time of year, 2004. It&#8217;s got that introspective, crappy art-student poem thing going on but I like the line &#8216;Swing childish, Scatter mittens.&#8217; That&#8217;s exactly how I still feel about mittens.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting also to find the poem and discover so much visceral imagery in the way I write about being in constant pain; &#8216;Foot burns itself\/Into a thick bear paw.&#8217; There is quite a distance between the yellow and red, polka-dot, start-spangly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missability.com\">Missability website<\/a> and the very physical nature of what I&#8217;ve written here which feels just way more physical, and angrier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In amidst packing the boxes, an old exercise book. In the old exercise book: Pink light evening comes in the warm glowof car lightscrisp leavestears are ready, just behind the eyes.Back feels flexible, shoulders want to stretch,Bump my sides softly,Swing childishScatter mittens&#8230;Feet striding. Heel hits pavementForce I AM HERE I MATTER I WILLMouth&#8230;So soft. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmise-1h","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}