{"id":2212,"date":"2013-05-24T15:09:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T19:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2013-05-24T15:09:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T19:09:27","slug":"from-blossoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/from-blossoms\/","title":{"rendered":"From Blossoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Li-Young Lee<\/div>\n<div>From blossoms comes<\/div>\n<div>this brown paper bag of peaches<\/div>\n<div>we bought from the boy<\/div>\n<div>at the bend in the road where we turned toward<\/div>\n<div>signs painted\u00a0<em>Peaches<\/em>.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>From laden boughs, from hands,<\/div>\n<div>from sweet fellowship in the bins,<\/div>\n<div>comes nectar at the roadside, succulent<\/div>\n<div>peaches we devour, dusty skin and all,<\/div>\n<div>comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>O, to take what we love inside,<\/div>\n<div>to carry within us an orchard, to eat<\/div>\n<div>not only the skin, but the shade,<\/div>\n<div>not only the sugar, but the days, to hold<\/div>\n<div>the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into<\/div>\n<div>the round jubilance of peach.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>There are days we live<\/div>\n<div>as if death were nowhere<\/div>\n<div>in the background; from joy<\/div>\n<div>to joy to joy, from wing to wing,<\/div>\n<div>from blossom to blossom to<\/div>\n<div>impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on March 28, 2013<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Li-Young Lee From blossoms comes this brown paper bag of peaches we bought from the boy at the bend in the road where we turned toward signs painted\u00a0Peaches. &nbsp; From laden boughs, from hands, from sweet fellowship in the bins, comes nectar at the roadside, succulent peaches we devour, dusty skin and all, comes [&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\/2212"}],"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=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions\/2213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}