{"id":284,"date":"2012-02-10T09:37:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T09:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/?p=284"},"modified":"2012-02-10T09:37:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T09:37:08","slug":"mother-ocean-tear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/2012\/02\/mother-ocean-tear\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother, Ocean, Tear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>by Gord Sellar<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">the first women<br \/>\nemerged from oceans<br \/>\ncarrying within<br \/>\nfistfuls of it, hidden<br \/>\nsalty-womb-drink<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">to anoint husbands,<br \/>\nbaptize children, months-long<br \/>\nto pass a sacred drop into each daughter<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">what is a tear<br \/>\nexcept whispered<br \/>\nmemory, brine, carried from<br \/>\nhome?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">do the fishes weep? do they<br \/>\nfill depths for<br \/>\nus, mourning lost cousins?<br \/>\nDo deep ones,<br \/>\nfreakish luminous things,<br \/>\nnameless jellies, floating<br \/>\nshadow-tentacled monsters? Through the glass<br \/>\nyou shudder, snapping pictures;<br \/>\nwonder, does it remember<br \/>\nme?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">families have limits, boundaries,<br \/>\nbarriers, photos that will never<br \/>\nbe kept in albums, names<br \/>\nnot made for genealogies<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">you will never learn to<br \/>\nswim.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><em>&#8212; Saskatoon, 1996<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Gord Sellar the first women emerged from oceans carrying within fistfuls of it, hidden salty-womb-drink to anoint husbands, baptize children, months-long to pass a sacred drop into each daughter what is a tear except whispered memory, brine, carried from home? do the fishes weep? do they fill depths for us, mourning lost cousins? Do [&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":[6],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems-canada"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xIep-4A","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","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=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}