{"id":1282,"date":"2012-03-15T15:19:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T19:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2012-03-15T15:33:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T19:33:26","slug":"dear-one-absent-this-long-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/dear-one-absent-this-long-while\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear One Absent This Long While"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Lisa Olstein<\/p>\n<p>It has been so wet stones glaze in moss;<br \/>\neverything blooms coldly.<\/p>\n<p>I expect you. I thought one night it was you<br \/>\nat the base of the drive, you at the foot of the stairs,<\/p>\n<p>you in a shiver of light, but each time<br \/>\nleaves in wind revealed themselves,<\/p>\n<p>the retreating shadow of a fox, daybreak.<br \/>\nWe expect you, cat and I, bluebirds and I, the stove.<\/p>\n<p>In May we dreamed of wreaths burning on bonfires<br \/>\nover which young men and women leapt.<\/p>\n<p>June efforts quietly.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve planted vegetables along each garden wall<\/p>\n<p>so even if spring continues to disappoint<br \/>\nwe can say at least the lettuce loved the rain.<\/p>\n<p>I have new gloves and a new hoe.<br \/>\nI practice eulogies. He was a hawk<\/p>\n<p>with white feathered legs. She had the quiet ribs<br \/>\nof a salamander crossing the old pony post road.<\/p>\n<p>Yours is the name the leaves chatter<br \/>\nat the edge of the unrabbited woods.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on March 11<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lisa Olstein It has been so wet stones glaze in moss; everything blooms coldly. I expect you. I thought one night it was you at the base of the drive, you at the foot of the stairs, you in a shiver of light, but each time leaves in wind revealed themselves, the retreating shadow [&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\/1282"}],"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=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}