{"id":5645,"date":"2009-03-10T09:04:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T09:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5645"},"modified":"2009-03-10T09:04:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T09:04:01","slug":"snapshots-from-february-and-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5645","title":{"rendered":"snapshots from February and March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out of the bathroom window in the middle of the night, a scene from an expressionist painting. The moon, too large, glares through black tree limbs. Snow forms a smooth shape, a pearly pool, amid the trunks. Houses stand at crazy angles.<\/p>\n<ul>Two people walk through the cold naked grove;<br \/>The moon goes with them, they gaze at it.<br \/>The moon slips over tall oak trees;<br \/>No cloud obscures the heaven&#8217;s light<br \/>Into which the black spikes reach.<\/p>\n<p>(From Richard Dehmel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeno.org\/Literatur\/M\/Dehmel,+Richard+Fedor+Leopold\/Gedichte\/Zwei+Menschen\">Zwei Menschen<\/a>, 1903)<\/ul>\n<p>A woman is running, screaming up Winter Hill in Somerville toward a gas station, where a knot of people stands. One of them is a police officer. Her dog lies on his side as if asleep.<\/p>\n<p>False spring on Brattle Street: grand Victorian houses, an anthology of architectural styles. Joggers, toddlers in strollers, buds on the manicured foliage.<\/p>\n<p>On a beach near Gloucester, the vacation houses have a slum-like look. They are small and boarded-up for winter; the streets are deserted in the cold sea air. There&#8217;s a game of horse-shoe on the sand, and dogs run joyfully in the surf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of the bathroom window in the middle of the night, a scene from an expressionist painting. The moon, too large, glares through black tree limbs. Snow forms a smooth shape, a pearly pool, amid the trunks. Houses stand at crazy angles. Two people walk through the cold naked grove;The moon goes with them, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-and-worse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}