{"id":6746,"date":"2011-07-12T06:30:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T18:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=6746"},"modified":"2014-02-17T22:03:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T09:03:02","slug":"tuesday-poem-indifferent-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/07\/12\/tuesday-poem-indifferent-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem: &#8220;Indifferent Planet&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Indifferent Planet<\/h3>\n<p>Taking out the rubbish<br \/>\nin the dark pre-dawn,<br \/>\nthe stars still crisp<br \/>\nin the frost-black<br \/>\noverhead, the plastic wheels<br \/>\non the bins jolting<br \/>\nover the gullies and ridges<br \/>\nof the old creek bed<br \/>\nthat was once our driveway<br \/>\nbefore \u2014 before February 22nd<br \/>\nwhen the earth god stretched<br \/>\nagain in his sleep, or was it Loki,<br \/>\nwrithing to avoid the serpents&#8217; venom,<br \/>\nthe earth also condemned<br \/>\nto writhe with him, while we,<br \/>\nlike ninepins, were knocked about \u2014<br \/>\nmost to pick ourselves up again,<br \/>\ndust off, dig out,<br \/>\nbut one hundred and eighty one<br \/>\nnot so fortunate, fallen witness<br \/>\nto the random acts of violence<br \/>\nof an indifferent planet.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n\u00a9 Helen Lowe, 2011<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\nThis poem is dedicated to the memory of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.police.govt.nz\/list-deceased\">181 people<\/a> who died in Christchurch&#8217;s February 22nd earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>For more great Tuesday poems and to read the guest poet featured on the <strong>Tuesday Poem Hub<\/strong>, either click <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> or on the Quill icon in the sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indifferent Planet Taking out the rubbish in the dark pre-dawn, the stars still crisp in the frost-black overhead, the plastic wheels on the bins jolting over the gullies and ridges of the old creek bed that was once our driveway before \u2014 before February 22nd when the earth god stretched again in his sleep, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakepoems","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6746"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10728,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions\/10728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}