{"id":318,"date":"2009-02-14T18:09:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T02:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/niasomoves.com\/Rachaelsblog\/?p=318"},"modified":"2009-02-21T18:53:32","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T02:53:32","slug":"a-love-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/a-love-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"A Love Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Love Letter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Within a circle of one meter<br \/>\n You sit, pray and sing.<\/p>\n<p>Within a shelter ten meters large<br \/>\n You sleep well, rain sounds a lullaby.<\/p>\n<p>Within a field a hundred meters large<br \/>\n Raise rice and goats.<\/p>\n<p>Within a valley a thousand meters large<br \/>\n Gather firewood, water, wild vegetables and Amanitas.<\/p>\n<p>Within a forest ten kilometers large<br \/>\n Play with raccoons, hawks,\u00a0<br \/>\n Poison snakes and butterflies.<\/p>\n<p>Mountainous country Shinano<br \/>\n A hundred kilometers \u00a0large<br \/>\n Where someone lives leisurely, they say.<\/p>\n<p>Within a circle ten thousand kilometers large<br \/>\n Go to see the southern coral reef in summer<br \/>\n Or winter drifting ices in the sea of Okhotsk.<\/p>\n<p>Within a circle ten thousand kilometers large<br \/>\n Swimming in the sea of shooting stars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3614\/3280219568_550e03ace7_m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3614\/3280219568_550e03ace7_m.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3614\/3280219568_550e03ace7_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Within a circle a million kilometers large\u00a0<br \/>\n Upon the spaced-out yellow mustard blossoms<br \/>\n The moon in the east, the sun west.<\/p>\n<p>Within a circle ten billion kilometers large<br \/>\n Pop far out of the solar system mandala.<\/p>\n<p>Within a circle ten thousand light years large<br \/>\n Andromeda is melting away into snowing cherry flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Now within a circle ten billion light years large<br \/>\n All thoughts of time, space are burnt away.<br \/>\n There again you sit pray and sing<br \/>\n You sit, pray and sing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8212; Nanao Sakaki<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>from <em>Break The Mirror<br \/>\n <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">(North Point Press)\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Love Letter Within a circle of one meter You sit, pray and sing. Within a shelter ten meters large You sleep well, rain sounds a lullaby. Within a field a hundred meters large Raise rice and goats. Within a valley a thousand meters large Gather firewood, water, wild vegetables and Amanitas. Within a forest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hair","category-poem-of-the-week"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}