{"id":2988,"date":"2016-10-12T19:39:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T19:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2017-08-01T21:26:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T21:26:55","slug":"fall-of-the-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2016\/10\/12\/fall-of-the-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall of the Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Climbed the mountain one more time, a desert found instead.<\/li>\n
  2. Drawing deep from in the well, its water long since dead.<\/li>\n
  3. Wand\u2019ring to and running\u00a0fro, for water and for bread,<\/li>\n
  4. Starving, thirsty, seeking with a mouth all cracked and bled.<\/li>\n
  5. Compass pointing to the north, and south, and east, and west.<\/li>\n
  6. Rhombus\u2014once\u00a0a square\u2014appears, askew and quite\u00a0compressed.<\/li>\n
  7. Soul and body, once nourished, now nothing to digest<\/li>\n
  8. Standing, sitting\u2014kneeling, too\u2014collectively confess.<\/li>\n
  9. A grip, a shake, a sign, a name; a swipe across the brow;<\/li>\n
  10. A leaf, a cup, an ear, a tree; a drop atop the crown.<\/li>\n
  11. Hearken. Yes. A bowing head. Hands up, and then hands down.<\/li>\n
  12. Climbing up, and to the core, once smiling, now a frown.<\/li>\n
  13. Watching from the valley great the mountain as it falls:<\/li>\n
  14. Gold and silver, brass and clay, demolished by a ball.<\/li>\n
  15. No warning shout, no sounding trump, no watchmen on the wall.<\/li>\n
  16. Like a thief in darkest night, the stealth will shock us all.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Climbed the mountain one more time, a desert found instead. Drawing deep from in the well, its water long since dead. Wand\u2019ring to and running\u00a0fro, for water and for bread, Starving, thirsty, seeking with a mouth all cracked and bled. Compass pointing to the north, and south, and east, and west. Rhombus\u2014once\u00a0a square\u2014appears, askew and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith-crisis-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/08\/rock-crash-273703_1920.jpg?fit=1574%2C1050&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-Mc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3101,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2017\/08\/08\/mountain-climber\/","url_meta":{"origin":2988,"position":0},"title":"Mountain Climber","author":"Kim Siever","date":"8 August 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"All dressed in white, I travelled up the bumpy mountain trail. 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