{"id":740,"date":"2011-05-06T16:14:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T20:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=740"},"modified":"2011-05-06T16:14:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T20:14:24","slug":"spell-to-be-said-upon-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/spell-to-be-said-upon-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"Spell To Be Said Upon Departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Jane Hirshfield<\/p>\n<p>What had come here to do<br \/>\nhaving finished,<br \/>\nshelves of the water lie flat.<\/p>\n<p>Copper the leaves of the doorsill,<br \/>\nyellow and falling.<br \/>\nScarlet the bird that is singing.<\/p>\n<p>Vanished the labor, here walls are.<br \/>\nCompleted the asking.<br \/>\nLoosing the birds there is water.<\/p>\n<p>Having eaten the pears.<br \/>\nHaving eaten<br \/>\nthe black figs, the white figs.  Eaten the apples.<\/p>\n<p>Table be strewn.<br \/>\nTable be strewn with stems,<br \/>\ntable with peelings of grapefruit and pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>Table be strewn with pleasure,<br \/>\nwhat was here to be done having finished.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on May 1<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jane Hirshfield What had come here to do having finished, shelves of the water lie flat. Copper the leaves of the doorsill, yellow and falling. Scarlet the bird that is singing. Vanished the labor, here walls are. Completed the asking. Loosing the birds there is water. Having eaten the pears. Having eaten the black [&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\/740"}],"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=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}