{"id":9806,"date":"2006-12-08T14:47:31","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T09:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/water-rituals\/"},"modified":"2023-02-15T16:18:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T11:18:39","slug":"water-rituals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/editorials\/water-rituals\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Rituals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><br \/>\n_(for N.G.)_<br \/>\nMy daughter stands on the banks of a river,<br \/>\nslow and meandering on the surface,<br \/>\nbut snarled below with deadheads<br \/>\nand undercurrents. She takes off<br \/>\nthe bones of my life draped so lovingly<br \/>\nover her shoulders, hangs them<br \/>\non the branches of a tree to dry<br \/>\nand twist into driftwood. She wants<br \/>\nto make her own mistakes, to dive in<br \/>\nnaked, find her ground and let the river<br \/>\nclothe her, swim the river in herself.<br \/>\nI have my own water rituals, a lake<br \/>\nso deep you can\u2019t always find bottom.<br \/>\nOccasionally, those missing for years<br \/>\nwill float to the surface, recognizable<br \/>\nas the day they leapt from the bridge.<br \/>\nNo one knows why they sink so far,<br \/>\nwhy the tension cutting the lake into cold<br \/>\nand warm, holds and preserves them.<br \/>\nWhen they come back to us, we say<br \/>\nthe lake has turned, given up<br \/>\nits dead, given us back to ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>click link to read poem<\/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":[1595],"tags":[],"genre":[150],"publisher":[],"issue":[39],"poet-in-residence":[],"series":[3148,3265],"topic":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9806"}],"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=9806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9806"},{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=9806"},{"taxonomy":"publisher","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publisher?post=9806"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=9806"},{"taxonomy":"poet-in-residence","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet-in-residence?post=9806"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=9806"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}