{"id":1235,"date":"2012-03-13T00:02:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T13:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?page_id=1235"},"modified":"2012-03-13T00:02:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T13:02:18","slug":"vocabulary-of-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?page_id=1235","title":{"rendered":"vocabulary of the beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>this alphabet of pebbles<\/p>\n<p>shells<\/p>\n<p>seaweed<\/p>\n<p>each morning<\/p>\n<p>each tide<\/p>\n<p>a recombinant story<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a subtle language<\/p>\n<p>infinite narrative from a<\/p>\n<p>finite vocabulary<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>telling the old story each day<\/p>\n<p>another way<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>today an almost<\/p>\n<p>blank page. a feathery weed<\/p>\n<p>brushes a haiku<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After the storm a cyrillic of bleached <em>Posidonia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Sumi-e<\/em> black seagrass on whitepapered sand<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chats leave their own story in cuneiform<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>everyday<\/p>\n<p>The mystery<\/p>\n<p>explained<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the rosetta stone,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>undiscovered.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>First published in <em>TEXT<\/em>: The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs, Griffith University<\/p>\n<p>Vol 10 No 2 October 2006<\/p>\n<p>ISSN: 1327-9556<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.textjournal.com.au\/oct06\/walker.htm\">http:\/\/www.textjournal.com.au\/oct06\/walker.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>also appears in <em>micromacro<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; this alphabet of pebbles shells seaweed each morning each tide a recombinant story &nbsp; a subtle language infinite narrative from a finite vocabulary &nbsp; telling the old story each day another way &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; today &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?page_id=1235\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1235","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1236,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1235\/revisions\/1236"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}