{"id":166537,"date":"2020-08-17T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=166537"},"modified":"2020-08-08T08:12:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T07:12:47","slug":"from-blossoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/08\/from-blossoms\/","title":{"rendered":"From Blossoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"o-vr o-vr_12x\">\n<div class=\"c-feature\">\n<div class=\"c-feature-bd\">\n<div class=\"o-poem isActive\" data-view=\"PoemView\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o-grid\">\n<div class=\"o-grid-col o-grid-col_10of12\">\n<div class=\"o-vr o-vr_2x\">\n<p>From blossoms comes<br \/>\nthis brown paper bag of peaches<br \/>\nwe bought from the boy<br \/>\nat the bend in the road where we turned toward<br \/>\nsigns painted Peaches.<\/p>\n<p>From laden boughs, from hands,<br \/>\nfrom sweet fellowship in the bins,<br \/>\ncomes nectar at the roadside, succulent<br \/>\npeaches we devour, dusty skin and all,<br \/>\ncomes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.<\/p>\n<p>O, to take what we love inside,<br \/>\nto carry within us an orchard, to eat<br \/>\nnot only the skin, but the shade,<br \/>\nnot only the sugar, but the days, to hold<br \/>\nthe fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into<br \/>\nthe round jubilance of peach.<\/p>\n<p>There are days we live<br \/>\nas if death were nowhere<br \/>\nin the background; from joy<br \/>\nto joy to joy, from wing to wing,<br \/>\nfrom blossom to blossom to<br \/>\nimpossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.<br \/>\n__________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Li-Young Lee, \u201cFrom Blossoms\u201d from <\/em>Rose<em>. Copyright \u00a9 1986 by Li-Young Lee. Reprinted with the permission of BOA Editions Ltd., www.boaeditions.org.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Rose (BOA Editions Ltd., 1986)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From blossoms comes<br \/>\nthis brown paper bag of peaches<br \/>\nwe bought from the boy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-166537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}