{"id":1423,"date":"2024-09-01T05:49:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T05:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2024-09-01T05:49:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T05:49:02","slug":"berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/09\/01\/berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"511\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem246.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem246.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem246-300x192.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem246-768x491.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My mind is sloshing in an empty brain,<br>Forgotten jokes rising to the surface.<br>Unbidden tears rising in my eyes,<br>Unbound, unconnected and unclear,<br>There is no sadness &#8211; maybe loss and mourning<br>But then for whom or what?<br>I am confused.<br>I wade through rain and waters of Berlin,<br>My mind precedes the tower of Babel &#8211;<br>It grasps the meaning, but discards the form.<br>The language spoken is of no importance<br>And does not register or muddy<br>The waters &#8211; deep and murky as they are,<br>With lurking Moray eels and tiny spiders<br>Who build a home from the air bubbles,<br>All light and sparkle, lightness and the beauty<br>Supported by a web of finest silk,<br>A bubble dance distorting space and vision,<br>Concealing occupant, revealing truth\u2026<br>I wander through a half-imagined city<br>Of memories and loss and expectations<br>With long-forgotten, longed for sense of lightness.<br>This, too, shall pass.<br>It&#8217;s time to gather stones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mind is sloshing in an empty brain,Forgotten jokes rising to the surface.Unbidden tears rising in my eyes,Unbound, unconnected and unclear,There is no sadness &#8211; maybe loss and mourningBut then for whom or what?I am confused.I wade through rain and waters of Berlin,My mind precedes the tower of Babel &#8211;It grasps the meaning, but discards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[347,34,23,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1424,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/1424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}