{"id":610,"date":"2011-03-23T12:04:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T16:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=610"},"modified":"2011-03-23T12:06:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T16:06:53","slug":"what-you-cannot-hold-from-rilkes-sonnets-to-orpheus-i-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/what-you-cannot-hold-from-rilkes-sonnets-to-orpheus-i-4\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Cannot Hold, from Rilke&#8217;s Sonnets to Orpheus, I, 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing<br \/>\n&#8230;that is more than your own.<br \/>\nLet it brush your cheeks<br \/>\nas it divides and rejoins behind you.<\/p>\n<p>Blessed ones, whole ones,<br \/>\nyou where the heart begins:<br \/>\nYou are the bow that shoots the arrows<br \/>\nand you are the target.<\/p>\n<p>Fear not the pain. Let its weight fall back<br \/>\ninto the earth;<br \/>\nfor heavy are the mountains, heavy the seas.<\/p>\n<p>The trees you planted in childhood have grown too heavy.<br \/>\nYou cannot bring them along.<br \/>\nGive yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read by Denise at St. Lydia&#8217;s on March 6<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing &#8230;that is more than your own. Let it brush your cheeks as it divides and rejoins behind you. Blessed ones, whole ones, you where the heart begins: You are the bow that shoots the arrows and you are the target. Fear not the pain. Let its weight [&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\/610"}],"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=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}