{"id":1792,"date":"2018-08-27T08:14:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T15:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2018-08-26T16:54:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T23:54:40","slug":"the-library-of-trees-by-rebecca-buchanan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1792","title":{"rendered":"The Library of Trees by Rebecca Buchanan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1798\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/8273941970_95578ab851_z-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/8273941970_95578ab851_z-201x300.jpg 201w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/8273941970_95578ab851_z.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>books remember<\/p>\n<p>abandoned<br \/>\nthe roof falls in<br \/>\nand the walls cave in<br \/>\nand the floor cracks wide<\/p>\n<p>the rain and the sun<br \/>\ntouch their spines<br \/>\nand they remember<br \/>\nthat they were trees<br \/>\nonce<br \/>\ndeep rooted and tall<\/p>\n<p>and trees they become again<br \/>\npages melting beneath water and light<br \/>\nfalling<br \/>\nsettling in the rich earth<\/p>\n<p>and they grow<br \/>\ntrunks engraved with the words<br \/>\nof cather and whitman<br \/>\nleaves shimmering<br \/>\nwith the verses of basho and dickinson<br \/>\nbranches whispering<br \/>\nwhispering<\/p>\n<p>winds rise and rush<br \/>\nstorms carry word-seeds<br \/>\nhigh and far<br \/>\nforests of poem-ash and myth-maples<br \/>\ngroves of tragic-oak and satire-thorn<br \/>\ngrow deep-rooted and tall<br \/>\na world of stories<br \/>\nnurtured<br \/>\nby a library of trees<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Detroit Book Depository<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>books remember abandoned the roof falls in and the walls cave in and the floor cracks wide the rain and the sun touch their spines and they remember that they were trees once deep rooted and tall and trees they become again pages melting beneath water and light falling settling in the rich earth and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1799,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions\/1799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}