{"id":969,"date":"2007-02-15T16:54:10","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T14:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/archives\/969"},"modified":"2007-07-21T19:20:24","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T17:20:24","slug":"maybe-the-windows-need-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/969","title":{"rendered":"Maybe the windows need cleaning."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is easier to write with teardrops\/raindrops on the window<br \/>\nand running in rivers down the street.<br \/>\nIt is easier to speak in the dark when no one can see my eyes.<br \/>\nI am running out of words and desperately digging through paragraphs<br \/>\nto see what I used before.<br \/>\n<em>(papers are falling to the floor all around me)<\/em><br \/>\nIt is hopeless to use words and pictures and sounds separately.<br \/>\nIt is impossible for me to put everything together coherently.<\/p>\n<p>I am racing against myself, against my thoughts to catch up to the dreams I&#8217;ve been having for so many years.  Three to four dreams a night and it is certainly starting to add up&#8230;I guess my soul is taking trips around the world and keeping busy.<\/p>\n<p>Put it down on paper quick!<br \/>\nWrite!<\/p>\n<p>Find new words for every image because although I wish so hard I could paint these things&#8230;someone else has taken that picture already, has used the canvas to show it and I can only throw it down on screens and paper.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/140\/391128808_d0e62d3b84_b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/140\/391128808_d0e62d3b84.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>(This morning, from an office window)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is easier to write with teardrops\/raindrops on the window and running in rivers down the street. It is easier to speak in the dark when no one can see my eyes. I am running out of words and desperately&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}