{"id":18472,"date":"2026-02-03T16:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=18472"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:54:56","slug":"poem-gillnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/poem-gillnets\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: Gillnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gillnets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I remember as a child picking them out<br \/>\nfrom the bow, and peering down at currents<br \/>\nmoving freely through their masks \u2013 the net draped<br \/>\nfrom an orderly row of cork floaters, near shore.<\/p>\n<p>There a canopy of beeches could dapple light<br \/>\nonto the water\u2019s surface, or space between two pine boughs<br \/>\nslant a shaft that widened undertow<br \/>\nto an aquascope\u2019s beam stretching my fathom,<\/p>\n<p>to where I could spot a sea trout\u2019s glint<br \/>\nin the haze of algae-motes flickering,<br \/>\nor the larger shadow of a salmon gliding<br \/>\nover rocks in olive sea-moss at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>But I never witnessed the billowing out<br \/>\nand tangling; the settlement upon giving in \u2013<br \/>\nI came always to the hush of fires smouldering.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span class=\"mw-mmv-title\"><br \/>\nOil painting of gillnetting, The salmon fisher, by <a title=\"Eilif Peterssen\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eilif_Peterssen\">Eilif Peterssen<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gillnets I remember as a child picking them out from the bow, and peering down at currents moving freely through their masks \u2013 the net draped from an orderly row of cork floaters, near shore. There a canopy of beeches could dapple light onto the water\u2019s surface, or space between two pine boughs slant a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1449,2870,2875,3719,6692,7320,7341,9267],"class_list":["post-18472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-cassandra-voices-poetry","tag-eilif-peterssen","tag-eivind-e-olsen","tag-gillnets","tag-norwegian-poet","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-the-salmon-fisher-eilif-peterssen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18472","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18472\/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=18472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}