{"id":2297,"date":"2025-12-02T19:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T00:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2025-12-02T19:59:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T00:59:59","slug":"2-decembrance-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2025\/12\/02\/2-decembrance-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"#2 decembrance 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At sundown, after many trips back and forth, from house to studio in the damp landscape, it feels like all my words have gathered at the foot of the trees in silence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"826\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/02-decembrance-2025-1024x826.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/02-decembrance-2025-1024x826.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/02-decembrance-2025-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/02-decembrance-2025-768x620.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/02-decembrance-2025-1536x1239.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/02-decembrance-2025.jpg 1983w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>To a Leaf Falling in Winter<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At sundown when a day\u2019s words<br>have gathered at the feet of the trees<br>lining up in silence<br>to enter the long corridors<br>of the roots into which they<br>pass one by one thinking<br>that they remember the place<br>as they feel themselves climbing<br>away from their only sound<br>while they are being forgotten<br>by their bright circumstances<br>they rise through all of the rings<br>listening again<br>afterward as they<br>listened once and they come<br>to where the leaves used to live<br>during their lives but have gone now<br>and they too take the next step<br>beyond the reach of meaning<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014W.S. Merwin, in &#8220;Present Company,&#8221; Copper Canyon Press, 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At sundown, after many trips back and forth, from house to studio in the damp landscape, it feels like all my words have gathered at the foot of the trees in silence. To a Leaf Falling in Winter At sundown when a day\u2019s wordshave gathered at the feet of the treeslining up in silenceto enter [&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-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","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=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2300,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions\/2300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}