{"id":281,"date":"2012-02-10T09:31:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T09:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/?p=281"},"modified":"2012-02-10T09:31:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T09:31:37","slug":"tectonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/2012\/02\/tectonic\/","title":{"rendered":"Tectonic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>by Gord Sellar<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Life in twenty seconds of synapse<br \/>\nflares and blooms in a grocery store lineup<br \/>\nbecause a name, a syllable,<br \/>\nbecause a species of unseen laughter,<br \/>\nof countenance, it makes you wonder<br \/>\nat what it was, your imagination&#8217;s own<br \/>\naffair; and don&#8217;t start seeing it until<br \/>\nthe photographs are almost thoroughly<br \/>\ndismantled: that&#8217;s when you finally see<br \/>\nthe way things could maybe change<br \/>\nin the length of time it takes to sneeze<br \/>\nand elicit a strangers&#8217; blessing &#8212; the space<br \/>\nof a half-breath it takes for you to change<br \/>\nyour mind about the cheese, and turn away<br \/>\nin search of something harder, less gratuitous &#8212;<br \/>\nor for the world to fall apart around you,<br \/>\nto be rebuilt again in another form,<br \/>\nthe blocks beneath your feet grinding<br \/>\nat the joints, their places tectonic,<br \/>\njust when you thought you&#8217;d reconciled yourself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><em>&#8212; Jeonju, South Korea, Jan. 2005<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Gord Sellar Life in twenty seconds of synapse flares and blooms in a grocery store lineup because a name, a syllable, because a species of unseen laughter, of countenance, it makes you wonder at what it was, your imagination&#8217;s own affair; and don&#8217;t start seeing it until the photographs are almost thoroughly dismantled: that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems-kr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xIep-tectonic","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}