{"id":2068,"date":"2012-10-31T23:15:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T04:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2012-10-31T23:15:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T04:15:12","slug":"1-lift-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2068","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;1&#8230; lift off&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>An old one for today, but it seemed appropriate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>where to find poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>written on posts, on rails and stairs<br \/>\nwritten in chalk, on walls and sidewalks<br \/>\nin old bricked up alleyways<br \/>\non boarded up windows<br \/>\nwritten on napkins, on old cardboard boxes<br \/>\nin the margins of fliers<br \/>\non hat brims and T-shirts<br \/>\ndrawn on sneakers, casts and mirrors<br \/>\nwritten in lipstick and magic marker<br \/>\nin crayon and finger-paint<br \/>\nwritten in wet sand, in mud and fresh clay<br \/>\nwritten with sticks, fingers and toes<br \/>\nwritten with pen knives, etched with keys<br \/>\nand dried out pen nibs<br \/>\nwritten on skin, in henna and ink<br \/>\nwritten on fabric, with wax on silk<br \/>\ncarved into stone, wood and bone<br \/>\nwritten with beet juice, vegetable dye,<br \/>\nspilled coffee, melted chocolate<br \/>\nwritten on fogged up windows<br \/>\non dusty furniture, and dirty car doors<br \/>\nwritten with pebbles, twigs and leaves<br \/>\nwritten in whipped cream and mashed potatoes<br \/>\nstamped into freshly fallen snow<br \/>\nwritten with sparklers, words on the air<br \/>\nwritten on fingernails, with nail polish and Sharpies,<br \/>\nwhite-out and paint<br \/>\nwritten anywhere, everywhere,<br \/>\nwith everything &#038; anything<br \/>\nwords covering the world<\/p>\n<p>permanent or ephemeral,<br \/>\nrain washed, tide erased<br \/>\nor measuring out centuries<br \/>\nthis is how we say,<br \/>\n\u201cwe were here\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; T.H. (Blue book, Aug. &#8217;09)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old one for today, but it seemed appropriate. where to find poetry written on posts, on rails and stairs written in chalk, on walls and sidewalks in old bricked up alleyways on boarded up windows written on napkins, on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2068\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[825,810,770,826],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2069,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}