{"id":2430,"date":"2013-07-12T16:07:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T20:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2013-07-12T16:07:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T20:07:42","slug":"clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>by Denise Levertov<\/p>\n<p>The clouds as I see them, rising<\/p><\/div>\n<div>urgently, roseate in the<\/div>\n<div>mounting of somber power<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>surging in evening haste over<\/div>\n<div>roofs and hermetic<\/div>\n<div>grim walls\u2014<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last night<\/div>\n<div>as if death had lit a pale light<\/div>\n<div>in your flesh, your flesh<\/div>\n<div>was cold to my touch, or not cold<\/div>\n<div>but cool, cooling, as if the last traces<\/div>\n<div>of warmth were still fading in you.<\/div>\n<div>My thigh burned in cold fear where<\/div>\n<div>yours touched it.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>But I forced to mind my vision of a sky<\/div>\n<div>close and enclosed, unlike the space in which these clouds move\u2014<\/div>\n<div>a sky of gray mist it appeared\u2014<\/div>\n<div>and how looking intently at it we saw<\/div>\n<div>its gray was not gray but a milky white<\/div>\n<div>in which radiant traces of opal greens,<\/div>\n<div>fiery blues, gleamed, faded, gleamed again,<\/div>\n<div>and how only then, seeing the color in the gray,<\/div>\n<div>a field sprang into sight, extending<\/div>\n<div>between where we stood and the horizon,<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>a field of freshest deep spiring grass<\/div>\n<div>starred with dandelions,<\/div>\n<div>green and gold<\/div>\n<div>gold and green alternating in closewoven<\/div>\n<div>chords, madrigal field.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Is death\u2019s chill that visited our bed<\/div>\n<div>other than what it seemed, is it<\/div>\n<div>a gray to be watched keenly?<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Wiping my glasses and leaning westward,<\/div>\n<div>clearing my mind of the day\u2019s mist and leaning<\/div>\n<div>into myself to see<\/div>\n<div>the colors of truth<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>I watch the clouds as I see them<\/div>\n<div>in pomp advancing, pursuing<\/div>\n<div>the fallen sun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on July 8, 2013<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Denise Levertov The clouds as I see them, rising urgently, roseate in the mounting of somber power &nbsp; surging in evening haste over roofs and hermetic grim walls\u2014 &nbsp; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last night as if death had lit a pale light in your flesh, your flesh was cold to my touch, or not cold but [&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\/2430"}],"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=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions\/2431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}