{"id":2480,"date":"2006-09-03T18:13:14","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T01:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:42:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:42:55","slug":"quenchable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/09\/03\/quenchable\/","title":{"rendered":"Quenchable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Quenchable<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A toothless pinecone sits abandoned<br \/>\non a tan patch of crispy grass<br \/>\nthat serves as a lawn.<br \/>\nPointed brown pine needles<br \/>\nlong enough to knit with tangle<br \/>\namong singed ivy leaves in cemented<br \/>\ndirt. I sit at a sun-bleached<br \/>\ntable, scrawling on a dry page<br \/>\ninked with a Rorschach tea stain.<br \/>\nThe earth is sullen.<br \/>\nSeptember. Everything not<br \/>\nartificially watered sits parched,<br \/>\npatient, dormant, waiting for<br \/>\nautumn rains that will make roots<br \/>\ngasp with relief. Soon dust and water<br \/>\nwill meet, mingle, dance in rivulets.<br \/>\nGullies of debris will rush to the<br \/>\nsewer to merge with the bay.<br \/>\nMagician rain will vanish smog.<br \/>\nCrumpled tissue mountains will<br \/>\nbloom emerald green, cloaked with<br \/>\nclouds and adorned with shafts of<br \/>\nsunlight. The sky, no longer a<br \/>\none-dimensional flat blue, will<br \/>\ncarry chilly news of the coming<br \/>\nseason, a season to replenish.<br \/>\nWe are so thirsty. So ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quenchable A toothless pinecone sits abandoned on a tan patch of crispy grass that serves as a lawn. Pointed brown pine needles long enough to knit with tangle among singed ivy leaves in cemented dirt. I sit at a sun-bleached table, scrawling on a dry page inked with a Rorschach tea stain. The earth is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,28,16,215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aenigmas","category-humanities","category-nature","category-poetry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10352,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions\/10352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}