{"id":18015,"date":"2025-08-22T10:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=18015"},"modified":"2025-08-22T10:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:27:10","slug":"poem-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/poem-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Discovery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Discovery are coloured dark deep red.<br \/>\nI heard one falling as I brushed the tree \u2014<br \/>\na startled bird troubling bushy leaves \u2014<br \/>\nbut with more plummet, accelerated<\/p>\n<p>power, crimson sinker parting waves of green,<br \/>\ndescending progeny, seeds sheathed in a cream<br \/>\nflesh, webs of genes cradling what could be,<br \/>\nbound for the food waste bin, sequence<\/p>\n<p>on sequence of supercoiled code unread.<br \/>\nBut another journey took place instead<br \/>\nascent through sound, to ears, into words<br \/>\nas you can almost taste that zingy first<br \/>\napple of the season, sharp on your tongue,<br \/>\nsweet on your lips, parted and showing crimson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovery Discovery are coloured dark deep red. I heard one falling as I brushed the tree \u2014 a startled bird troubling bushy leaves \u2014 but with more plummet, accelerated power, crimson sinker parting waves of green, descending progeny, seeds sheathed in a cream flesh, webs of genes cradling what could be, bound for the food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":18037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1449,2496,6581,6584,6585,6588,6592,7320,7341,8919],"class_list":["post-18015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-cassandra-voices-poetry","tag-discovery","tag-nicholas-battey","tag-nicholas-battey-discovery","tag-nicholas-battey-first-apple-of-the-season","tag-nicholas-battey-gardening-poetry","tag-nicholas-battey-nature-poet","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-that-zing-first-apple-of-the-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18015","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=18015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18015\/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=18015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}