{"id":1525,"date":"2021-04-18T10:33:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T18:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2021-04-18T10:36:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T18:36:57","slug":"ripley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1525","title":{"rendered":"Ripley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">before a wall of Japanese knotweed\u2014tall, entangled\u2014\nsee from above, a reel of green,\n\nbefore the bones of the house fall,\u00a0\nbefore the shed where I crouch beside the white goat,\n\nhands firm on her teats, falls\nbefore the walls of the pantry fall\n\nbefore the kitchen, the second floor bedroom\nwhere I curl with a man, the hay shed\n\nthe pig pen, all fall\nmy life is made of light\n\nhas it too fallen?\nare those my days\n\nsunk deep in what was once the garden\nlost among roots of redtop, witchgrass\n\nthe wild remnants of hay?\nyes\u2014once hayfield, once\n\nthick tomatoes on vines\ndiapers and overalls hung from a line\n\npeapods snapped, beans canned,\nsheep with black noses pushing\n\nto get grain from my hand\u00a0\nhave I fallen into this earth?\n\nthe road still runs with its blue rip-tune\nspring still comes to take back the fallen\n\nI slide my kayak into a stream finally free of ice\nfrogs startle, whirligigs spin in\u00a0\n\ncrazed circles, on the shore arrow arum leaves\u00a0\ncover earth, my paddle dips, rises\n\nCafe Review\nSpring 2017<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>before a wall of Japanese knotweed\u2014tall, entangled\u2014 see from above, a reel of green, before the bones of the house fall,\u00a0 before the shed where I crouch beside the white goat, hands firm on her teats, falls before the walls of the pantry fall before the kitchen, the second floor bedroom where I curl with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1525\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ripley&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}