{"id":399,"date":"2011-06-10T18:01:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T18:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/?p=399"},"modified":"2015-05-17T01:02:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T01:02:20","slug":"sundown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/sundown\/","title":{"rendered":"Sundown"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-399-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/SundownVx3.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/SundownVx3.mp3\">https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/SundownVx3.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The sun had gone down<br \/>\nand the two lay in the boat<br \/>\ndreaming of\u2026 what?<br \/>\nThe other\u2019s cheek bone, or thigh?<br \/>\nHis hand,<br \/>\nher streaming face,<br \/>\nhis elbow, her weight<br \/>\ndragging him down to her,<br \/>\nthe heavy earth.<br \/>\nAnd night like a lilac\u2019s singing.<br \/>\nand the quiet of years\u2014<br \/>\nwould they wed?<br \/>\nWould they wed?<br \/>\nThe bird cried as it fled<br \/>\nover the blue blue sea\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Then it was morning.<br \/>\nThey dove into the sea,<br \/>\nwhite waves reassuring,<br \/>\nit was wind and sun,<br \/>\nsound of silence,<br \/>\nsound of the swelling<br \/>\nworld under waves.<br \/>\nAnd they lay on the boat<br \/>\nfeeling the beating<br \/>\nof their bodies, their lungs<br \/>\nrising and falling, sun on her back<br \/>\nand salt in his hair<br \/>\nand wind between them<br \/>\nand waves<br \/>\nmoving like white tigers.<\/p>\n<p>She wondered,<br \/>\ncan we wait?<br \/>\nHow to make out<br \/>\nof this silence a trembling<br \/>\ncloseness when he will speak<br \/>\nto bridge the hanging air,<br \/>\nthe sullenness, to creep within<br \/>\nand stay here.<\/p>\n<p>But hills stood like steel<br \/>\nshining in vagueness of mist<br \/>\nand the sound of a gull<br \/>\nquivered over the sea<br \/>\nand the death of lips<br \/>\nwhite-chalked with fear<br \/>\nclutched her and swung<br \/>\nher round on him.<br \/>\nWas this the one?<br \/>\nHis hand trailed into the sea<br \/>\nand his eyes were dust.<br \/>\nShe crept away<br \/>\nand swam to shore.<br \/>\nSand and yellow waves,<br \/>\nhigh peaks like hands<br \/>\nand green green trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/SundownVx3.mp3 &nbsp; The sun had gone down and the two lay in the boat dreaming of\u2026 what? The other\u2019s cheek bone, or thigh? His hand, her streaming face, his elbow, her weight dragging him down to her, the heavy earth. And night like a lilac\u2019s singing. and the quiet of years\u2014 would they wed? Would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovepoems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1830,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/1830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}