{"id":225,"date":"2010-09-10T12:13:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T16:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=225"},"modified":"2010-09-10T12:20:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T16:20:31","slug":"the-marriage-the-marriage-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/the-marriage-the-marriage-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marriage, The Marriage (II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Denise Levertov<\/p>\n<p>The Marriage<br \/>\nYou have my<br \/>\nattention: which is<br \/>\na tenderness, beyond<br \/>\nwhat I may say.\u00a0 And I have<br \/>\nyour constancy to<br \/>\nsomething beyond myself.<br \/>\nThe force<br \/>\nof your commitment charges us\u2014we live<br \/>\nin the sweep of it, taking courage<br \/>\none from the other.<\/p>\n<p>The Marriage (II)<\/p>\n<p>I want to speak to you.<br \/>\nTo whom else should I speak?<br \/>\nIt is you who make<br \/>\na world to speak of.<br \/>\nIn your warmth the<br \/>\nfruits ripen\u2014all the<br \/>\napples and pears that grow<br \/>\non the south wall of my<br \/>\nhead.\u00a0 If you listen<br \/>\nit rains for them, then<br \/>\nthey drink.\u00a0 If you<br \/>\nspeak in response<br \/>\nthe seeds<br \/>\njump into the ground.<br \/>\nSpeak or be silent:<br \/>\nyour silence<br \/>\nwill speak to me.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on September 5, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Denise Levertov The Marriage You have my attention: which is a tenderness, beyond what I may say.\u00a0 And I have your constancy to something beyond myself. The force of your commitment charges us\u2014we live in the sweep of it, taking courage one from the other. The Marriage (II) I want to speak to you. [&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\/225"}],"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=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}