{"id":15495,"date":"2023-08-15T12:59:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T11:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=15495"},"modified":"2023-08-15T12:59:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T11:59:06","slug":"waking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2023\/08\/15\/waking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Waking Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Waking Up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He had thousands of kodachromes<br \/>\nwhen he died. Nowadays they\u2019d be snaps<br \/>\nstored on the cloud, given back<br \/>\ntritely as memories by some iphone.<br \/>\nAnyway, they went in the bin,<br \/>\nregardless of what they meant to him.<\/p>\n<p>I have chameleon words, collections of notes,<br \/>\nplaying the same role: tie it down \u2014<br \/>\ncapture it. What? You, me, the sound<br \/>\nit makes to live; not bringing old stuff close<br \/>\nagain (that was bad enough back then),<br \/>\nbut the dazzle of being able to comprehend.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, insects don\u2019t waste being alive<br \/>\nworrying about themselves;<br \/>\nthey continue to batter themselves<br \/>\nagainst windows, the life of the hive<br \/>\nbefore their own; or fanatically nest<br \/>\nunder stones, enslaving aphids and the rest.<\/p>\n<p>And rabbits are the same, chewing and getting rattled.<br \/>\nAll have better things to countenance<br \/>\nthan their own permanance.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s baffling that we are so saddled,<br \/>\nknocked over by the whole picture.<br \/>\nWhat it says in the Scripture<\/p>\n<p>at the start \u2014 about Adam and Eve:<br \/>\nit\u2019s not really about sex and so on;<br \/>\nit\u2019s about seeing yourself, alone.<br \/>\nWaking up. To what you may believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waking Up He had thousands of kodachromes when he died. Nowadays they\u2019d be snaps stored on the cloud, given back tritely as memories by some iphone. Anyway, they went in the bin, regardless of what they meant to him. I have chameleon words, collections of notes, playing the same role: tie it down \u2014 capture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":15497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1436,1449,6581,6583,7341,9923,9924,9925],"class_list":["post-15495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-cassandra-voices-new-poetry","tag-cassandra-voices-poetry","tag-nicholas-battey","tag-nicholas-battey-cassandra-voices","tag-poetry","tag-waking","tag-waking-up-nicholas-battey","tag-waking-up-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}