{"id":1061,"date":"2011-12-11T10:50:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T15:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2011-12-11T10:57:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T15:57:38","slug":"briefly-it-enters-and-briefly-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/briefly-it-enters-and-briefly-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Jane Kenyon<\/p>\n<p>I am the blossom pressed in a book,<br \/>\nfound again after two hundred years. . . .<\/p>\n<p>I am the maker, the lover, and the keeper. . . .<\/p>\n<p>When the young girl who starves<br \/>\nsits down to a table<br \/>\nshe will sit beside me. . . .<\/p>\n<p>I am food on the prisoner&#8217;s plate. . . .<\/p>\n<p>I am water rushing to the wellhead,<br \/>\nfilling the pitcher until it spills. . . .<\/p>\n<p>I am the patient gardener<br \/>\nof the dry and weedy garden. . . .<\/p>\n<p>I am the stone step,<br \/>\nthe latch, and the working hinge. . . .<\/p>\n<p>I am the heart contracted by joy. . .<br \/>\nthe longest hair, white<br \/>\nbefore the rest. . . .<\/p>\n<p>I am there in the basket of fruit<br \/>\npresented to the widow. . . .<\/p>\n<p>I am the musk rose opening<br \/>\nunattended, the fern on the boggy summit. . . .<\/p>\n<p>I am the one whose love<br \/>\novercomes you, already with you<br \/>\nwhen you think to call my name. . . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on December 4<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jane Kenyon I am the blossom pressed in a book, found again after two hundred years. . . . I am the maker, the lover, and the keeper. . . . When the young girl who starves sits down to a table she will sit beside me. . . . I am food on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}