{"id":1135,"date":"2009-01-14T17:06:54","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T22:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davious.org\/now\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2024-12-19T10:41:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T15:41:23","slug":"night-fetching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/2009\/01\/night-fetching\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Fetching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">It\u2019s a pleasant night<br> First one in a while<br>I haven\u2019t taken Lexi fetching<br> for a while either \u2014 overworked<br>So, instead of taking a right<br> we take a why not<br>Can\u2019t see a moon to light our way<br> but the suburb lights reflect in the pink clouds<br>Park closed at dark<br> Park Authority<br> I\u2019ll tell them I didn\u2019t see<br>I don\u2019t even know if she\u2019ll want to fetch<br> She\u2019s all sniffs<br> I let her off leash \u2014<br>  no running to the stream<br> As we pass it by<br>  She shyly deviates tween<br>  path and brook<br>Only when I go off\u2013path<br> does her tail wag<br> and her feet scamper to water<br>I\u1fbfm surprised to find the stream half\u2013frozen<br> a sheet of ice spreads towards the middle<br>No sticks around, so I climb onto the tree<br> fallen across the stream<br> and fetch one there amidst the debris<br>Will she need daylight to see<br> or is it some other sense?<br>I throw it into the stream<br> and she fetches it back<br>I throw it in again; she\u2019s taking a while<br> she needs daylight, I guess<br>Here comes Lexi dragging this<br> mythical log<br>Strange, pure, hewn branch<br> from the river bottom<br>Not waterlogged, just heavy in solidity<br> She can\u2019t even drag it out of the water<br> just up to the shore<br> and tears off half its bark in one bite<br>So, over and over, mythical log<br> to be dredged from the bottom<br> of icy river on beautiful night<br>Headlights peek at me for a while and fade<br> an ambulance siren blares<br> a police copter circles around<br>Mocking my fears \u2014 no one cares<br>Lexi scampers around the sheet of ice<br> not finding the branch in the depths<br>\u201cGet it!\u201d I cheer, and she goes in and drags it out again<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a pleasant night First one in a whileI haven\u2019t taken Lexi fetching for a while either \u2014 overworkedSo, instead of taking a right we take a why notCan\u2019t see a moon to light our way but the suburb lights reflect in the pink cloudsPark closed at dark Park Authority I\u2019ll tell them I didn\u2019t [&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":[29,30],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-lexi","tag-lion-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3698,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/3698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}