{"id":10853,"date":"2021-05-28T19:52:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T14:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/the-april-winner-award-of-awesomenes\/"},"modified":"2023-02-15T16:18:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T11:18:56","slug":"the-map-of-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/editorials\/the-map-of-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Map of Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time itself, folded like a map,
with its sixteen pleats, its quarto charm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notice the names of lakes: Ontario, Erie.
And the rivers: Hudson, Housatonic.
About the map,
the route between your city and mine
is traced by the finger of the moon;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfolding the night, we have to consult
the legend:
distances in threes;
faces of worship, yes;
state parks bordered in lace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All cities face the stars.
I want the map to tell me we are near,
want the sentences to end in periods, not in ellipses,
these poppy seeds rolling in a crease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time itself, folded like a map,with its sixteen pleats, its quarto charm. Notice the names of lakes: Ontario, Erie.And the rivers: Hudson, Housatonic.About the map,the route between your city and mineis traced by the finger of the moon; Unfolding the night, we have to consultthe legend:distances in threes;faces of worship, yes;state parks bordered in lace. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2132],"tags":[],"genre":[150],"publisher":[],"issue":[],"poet-in-residence":[],"series":[3262,3148],"topic":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10853"},{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=10853"},{"taxonomy":"publisher","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publisher?post=10853"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=10853"},{"taxonomy":"poet-in-residence","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet-in-residence?post=10853"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=10853"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}