{"id":364,"date":"2015-10-29T07:04:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T07:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevirtualcavern.com\/?p=364"},"modified":"2015-10-29T07:04:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T07:04:01","slug":"the-poetry-podcast-10-28-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevirtualcavern.com\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Podcast – 10.28.2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oak<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Tell me your past.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

tell me your present.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

tell me how the cracks<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

on your wizened bark<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Split:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

tell me every one.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

tell me how red<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

like the color of clay<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

came to fill these fissures,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

how the memory<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

of a squirrel\u2019s paws<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Feels,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

still dancing across you.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

how a woodpecker\u2019s beak once<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Rat-tat-tatted,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

drilling miniscule holes<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

high among your wise,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

creaking branches.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

how\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

~<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Tree of power,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

tree of life,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

your heartbeat is made<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

of the dozen birds whose wings<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Rustle<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

among your green leaves,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

of the hundred crickets<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Cheeping<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

in the tall grass of your meadow<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

at night, of the million<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and two ant and centipede legs<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Crawling<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

deep inside you:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

they are your life,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and you are theirs.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0~<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Oh, tree, tell me<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

that your life will last forever<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

here in your clearing.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Tell me<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

that here, among queen anne\u2019s lace<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and breezes that whisper<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

through tall grass,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

here, with your branches<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Spread<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

like wings over your clearing,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

that nothing will ever change.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

comfort me, tree.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Tell me<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

that you will never die.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Oak \u00a0 Tell me your past. tell me your present. tell me how the cracks on your wizened bark Split: tell me every one. tell me how red like the color of clay came to fill these fissures, \u00a0 how the memory of a squirrel\u2019s paws Feels, still dancing across you. how a woodpecker\u2019s beak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevirtualcavern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevirtualcavern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevirtualcavern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevirtualcavern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevirtualcavern.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevirtualcavern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/thevirtualcavern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevirtualcavern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevirtualcavern.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevirtualcavern.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevirtualcavern.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}