{"id":370,"date":"2022-02-27T02:03:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T02:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianamilia.com\/?p=370"},"modified":"2024-01-30T22:52:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T22:52:01","slug":"370","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianamilia.com\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"The Drought Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Drought Years<\/strong><\/p>\n

Can dust get more dry?<\/p>\n

How deep may the sun burn?<\/p>\n

What will I say when we finally meet beyond the desert?<\/p>\n

Words turn to sand in my throat<\/p>\n

Unwatered seeds dormant on desiccated leaves<\/p>\n

A dim picture on the screen, swimmers<\/p>\n

in an Olympic pool, another mirage<\/p>\n

Shimmering waves, and <\/p>\n

shrinking trees nevertheless signal a presence<\/p>\n

An old pantheon, survivors in an oasis<\/p>\n

A yet untapped source<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Drought Years Can dust get more dry? How deep may the sun burn? What will I say when we finally meet beyond the desert? Words turn to sand in my throat Unwatered seeds dormant on desiccated leaves A dim picture on the screen, swimmers in an Olympic pool, another mirage Shimmering waves, and  shrinking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianamilia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianamilia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianamilia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianamilia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianamilia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dianamilia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/dianamilia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianamilia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianamilia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianamilia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}