{"id":328,"date":"2012-02-11T01:04:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T01:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/?p=328"},"modified":"2012-02-11T01:04:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T01:04:46","slug":"tatters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/2012\/02\/tatters\/","title":{"rendered":"tatters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>by Gord Sellar<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">there is only one book that secretly all<br \/>\nare obliged to read, its single page<br \/>\ncovered in scrawl that changes with each breath,<br \/>\nwith every thought, the lines of text that turn<br \/>\nand bind themselves into knots, each one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">it is much harder when cities don\u2019t sound exotic<br \/>\nlike, say, Atthis under a rose-fingered moon<br \/>\nmuch harder when there is no room for music,<br \/>\nno room weave in, no snide \u03b5\u03bb\u03b5\u03c0\u03c4\u03bf\u03bb\u03b9\u03b6,<br \/>\nno \u03b5\u03bb\u03b1\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1\u03bf\u03b6\u00a0\uf020\uf020on which to lay the weight of the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">fishy shadow and whitecap everywhere, the brine<br \/>\nfails not to wash over the bodies of those<br \/>\nwho manage to swim to the shore, to come to a land<br \/>\nclose enough that they speak the same language, can tell<br \/>\nyou the way home. even there, the ocean comes<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">to the body again, scouring. some ways it cleanses<br \/>\nbut only brackishly. you lie on your back and try<br \/>\nto breathe. you wonder what your name was, or is.<br \/>\nyou imagine seeing land, seeing masts, strange women<br \/>\ncrossing the surface of the water to attend to you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">&#8212; Montreal, 1999<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Gord Sellar there is only one book that secretly all are obliged to read, its single page covered in scrawl that changes with each breath, with every thought, the lines of text that turn and bind themselves into knots, each one. it is much harder when cities don\u2019t sound exotic like, say, Atthis under [&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-328","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\/s6xIep-tatters","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","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=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}