{"id":4510,"date":"2009-07-25T22:37:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T03:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=4510"},"modified":"2009-07-25T22:40:22","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T03:40:22","slug":"the-aquarium-deserted-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=4510","title":{"rendered":"The aquarium deserted now,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my favorite poetry <a href=\"http:\/\/poems.com\/today.php\">site<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>[the aquarium deserted now,]<\/p>\n<p>the aquarium deserted now,<br \/>\nthis is the song at dusk I write in the notebook:<br \/>\nstrange skin<br \/>\nnot quite seal<br \/>\nnot quite dolphin<br \/>\ninchoate<br \/>\ntexture like<br \/>\nsomething you forget<br \/>\nsomething you didn&#8217;t even see<br \/>\nthe first time<br \/>\nold shoe<br \/>\nsentient being with others in watery caves<br \/>\nlights off<br \/>\nwith motive &amp; mind up a ladder<br \/>\nmouth moving<br \/>\nquixotic mind<br \/>\nquick flick<br \/>\nwho are me<br \/>\nwho haunt me<br \/>\nplease haunt me<br \/>\nsummoned by the dream<br \/>\nthe kusha grass instructs<br \/>\nyou might say a kind of ceremony<br \/>\ngather up these nightmares<br \/>\nthis in a public space<br \/>\nwhere many minds meet<br \/>\n&amp; pass around the objects of this dream<br \/>\na blindfold, a crystal, a card with a bodhisattva upon it<br \/>\ngather them up &amp; making an offering<br \/>\nall the bikkus going down on their knees for this<br \/>\nin this world marked out by the augur<br \/>\ninterstices between living &amp; dead<br \/>\nan initiation on the nature of time<br \/>\n&amp; of continuity in a dark time<\/p>\n<p>mean world: humanity<br \/>\ndream world: manatee<br \/>\nsecret world: o<em>m mani padme manatee hum<br \/>\nom mani humanity padme hum<br \/>\nthe center of reference becomes movement in this ritual<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ANNE WALDMAN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my favorite poetry site: [the aquarium deserted now,] the aquarium deserted now, this is the song at dusk I write in the notebook: strange skin not quite seal not quite dolphin inchoate texture like something you forget something you didn&#8217;t even see the first time old shoe sentient being with others in watery caves lights off with motive &amp; mind up a ladder mouth moving quixotic mind quick flick who are me who haunt&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-1aK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4512,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions\/4512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}