{"id":869,"date":"2011-07-28T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=869"},"modified":"2011-07-28T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T18:22:00","slug":"pastoral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/pastoral\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastoral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Pablo Neruda<br \/>\ntranslated by Ben Belitt<\/p>\n<p>I go copying mountains and rivers and clouds:<br \/>\nI shake out my fountain pen, remark<br \/>\non a bird flying upward<br \/>\nor a spider alive in his workshop of floss,<br \/>\nwith no thought in my head; I am air,<br \/>\nI am limitless air where the wheat tosses,<br \/>\nand am moved by an impulse to fly, the uncertain<br \/>\ndirection of leaves, the round<br \/>\neye of the motionless fish in the cove,<br \/>\nstatues that soar through the clouds,<br \/>\nthe rain&#8217;s multiplications.<\/p>\n<p>I see only a summer&#8217;s<br \/>\ntransparency, I sing nothing but wind,<br \/>\nwhile history creaks on its carnival floats<br \/>\nhoarding medals and shrouds<br \/>\nand passes me by, and I stand by myself<br \/>\nin the spring, knowing nothing but rivers.<\/p>\n<p>Shepherd-boy, shepherd-boy, don&#8217;t you know<br \/>\nthat they wait for you?<\/p>\n<p>I know and I know it: but here by the water<br \/>\nin the crackle and flare of cicadas,<br \/>\nI must wait for myself, as they wait for me there:<br \/>\nI also would see myself coming<br \/>\nand know in the end how it feels to me<br \/>\nwhen I come to the place where I wait for my coming<br \/>\nand turn back to my sleep and die laughing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on July 10<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Pablo Neruda translated by Ben Belitt I go copying mountains and rivers and clouds: I shake out my fountain pen, remark on a bird flying upward or a spider alive in his workshop of floss, with no thought in my head; I am air, I am limitless air where the wheat tosses, and am [&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\/869"}],"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=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}