{"id":871,"date":"2010-07-07T20:31:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T01:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davious.org\/now\/?p=871"},"modified":"2024-12-18T17:44:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T22:44:50","slug":"koi-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/2010\/07\/koi-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Koi Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">The grey\u2013curled dryad\nspoke of a koi in the lake\nshe spied years ago\nKoi in the lake?\nDisposed by someone\nDispose of a koi?\nWhy not a lake full of koi?\n\n<em>I<\/em>\nI hunt for this koi\nin this vast lake\na tug on my line\nreveals grace\u2013filled fins\n            rainbow scales\n             languid eyes\n              from the depths\nstartled, I cut the line\nregret its nursing my rusting hook\n blemishing its lip\n\n<em>II<\/em>\nI hunt for this koi\nin this vast lake\na tug on my line\nreveals grace\u2013filled fins\n            rainbow scales\n             languid eyes\n              from the depths\ndetermined, I reel it in\ngrasp it\njerk out the hook\nas its blinking eyes\nwonder at my violence\n\n<em>III<\/em>\nI paddle\nin this vast lake\na glimmer of light\nreveals grace\u2013filled fins\n            rainbow scales\n             languid eyes\n              from the depths\n\n<em>IV<\/em>\nI dream of a glimpse\nof grace\u2013filled fins\n     rainbow scales\n      languid eyes\n       from the depths<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grey\u2013curled dryad spoke of a koi in the lake she spied years ago Koi in the lake? Disposed by someone Dispose of a koi? Why not a lake full of koi? I I hunt for this koi in this vast lake a tug on my line reveals grace\u2013filled fins rainbow scales languid eyes from [&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":[35],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-red-with-flowers-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","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=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3616,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/3616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}