{"id":3420,"date":"2018-06-04T15:01:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T21:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/?p=3420"},"modified":"2018-08-13T06:15:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T12:15:04","slug":"waters-of-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2018\/06\/04\/waters-of-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"Waters of Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol class=\"poem\">\n<li>Hanging up on a cross;<\/li>\n<li>Dripping from toes, my dross.<\/li>\n<li>Buried in waters of dust,<\/li>\n<li>Chipping away at crust.<\/li>\n<li>Breathing on me, a dove<\/li>\n<li>Sent from the moon above.<\/li>\n<li>Tending fin, wing, and claw.<\/li>\n<li>Eating good fruit I saw;<\/li>\n<li>Nibbling on blood and brain.<\/li>\n<li>Riding on wheel of pain.<\/li>\n<li>Farming thorns from the brink,<\/li>\n<li>Wanting for crumb and drink.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Listen<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/484893870&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hanging up on a cross; Dripping from toes, my dross. Buried in waters of dust, Chipping away at crust. Breathing on me, a dove Sent from the moon above. Tending fin, wing, and claw. Eating good fruit I saw; Nibbling on blood and brain. Riding on wheel of pain. Farming thorns from the brink, Wanting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3422,"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":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/549838828958.jpg?fit=1000%2C670&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-Ta","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3272,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2018\/02\/05\/ashes-to-ashes\/","url_meta":{"origin":3420,"position":0},"title":"Ashes to Ashes","author":"Kim Siever","date":"5 February 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Thrown into the fire, and what remained was charred. 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