{"id":1058,"date":"2024-12-14T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2024-12-14T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T00:59:00","slug":"14-decembrance-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2024\/12\/14\/14-decembrance-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"#14 decembrance 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I walk I continue to pick up leaves and carry them home in my pockets. Their shapes inspire form and line, architecture and pattern. Their shadows might cross my face or heart. They might express the darkness of a crow&#8217;s wing or reveal history stored in the pockets of an old coat; saved shapes still holding hope. After I take each leaf out of my pocket I fold it into the pages of books like small boats who are keepers of memory, color, and contour; vessels that keep going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/14-decembrance-2024-1024x655.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/14-decembrance-2024-1024x655.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/14-decembrance-2024-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/14-decembrance-2024-768x491.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/14-decembrance-2024-1536x982.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/14-decembrance-2024-2048x1309.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/14-decembrance-2024-1200x767.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/14-decembrance-2024-1980x1266.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">I  wake  like  a  hand  on  a  handle.  Tomorrow \n\nMarches  on  the  old  walls,  and  there \n\nIs  my  coat  full  of  darkness  in  its  place \n\nOn  the  door. \n\nWelcome  home, \n\nMemory. \n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;W. S. Merwin, excerpt from <em>Recognition<\/em>, in The Moving Target, 1963<br>(<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/movingtargetpoe00merw\/movingtargetpoe00merw_djvu.txt\">Full poem at number 38<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I walk I continue to pick up leaves and carry them home in my pockets. Their shapes inspire form and line, architecture and pattern. Their shadows might cross my face or heart. They might express the darkness of a crow&#8217;s wing or reveal history stored in the pockets of an old coat; saved shapes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}