{"id":96518,"date":"2019-08-01T19:44:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T18:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/?p=96518"},"modified":"2019-08-01T19:44:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T18:44:30","slug":"intolerable-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/96518-intolerable-weather.html","title":{"rendered":"Intolerable Weather [Poem]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kwTykRtbNUE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><noframes><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kwTykRtbNUE\">*|YOUTUBE:[$vid=kwTykRtbNUE]|*<br \/>Click to watch<\/a>\n<\/noframes><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Intolerable Weather<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flared sun beats its skin-tight drum,<br \/>\nand I think how arrogant it is to be alive.<br \/>\nThe blueberries are cultivating their beards<br \/>\nat the ice-domed back of the refrigerator.<br \/>\nWhose silence matters more&#8211;yours or mine?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are still, and still breathing, but barely,<br \/>\nas the wheat gathers her skirts by the stream.<br \/>\nNo prosody without blood or sweat, they say.<br \/>\nNone of us can survive this heat for long&#8211;<br \/>\nyet the kitchen exists, and so we cook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tonic is laced with just enough gin&#8211;<br \/>\neven as nonsense contains its backwash of truth,<br \/>\nand so we are given what we always wanted,<br \/>\ntearing through Christmas paper to get the gun<br \/>\nwe aim at classmates, flag unfurling its &#8220;Bang!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pull my finger whilst I talk into this banana.<br \/>\nSmell my flower while I sever a plastic thumb.<br \/>\nNo circus can compete with the headless headlines.<br \/>\nNo freak-show so freaky as the one behind shut lids.<br \/>\nOne day they will bottle silence, and we will pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For now cool breezes exist for the price of taxes,<br \/>\nfor now the stream gathers up acceptable losses.<br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t brought answers, just this deck of cards,<br \/>\nso we pass through the space between tick-marks,<br \/>\nmumbling through our hands a prayer for rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I think I am just the way<br \/>\ndishes get transported up and down stairs&#8211;<br \/>\nlike, having no legs, they invented me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1268,5,9,1275,14],"tags":[1274,1281,1278,1280,1283,1282],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}