{"id":434,"date":"2003-04-17T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-17T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/culture\/poem_silence_of_angels.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"poem_silence_of_angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2003\/04\/17\/poem_silence_of_angels","title":{"rendered":"The Silence of Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- keywords:Poetry --> <\/p>\n<h3>(after Rilke)<\/h3>\n<p> <!-- date:1998.05.01.00.00 --> <\/p>\n<div class=\"poetry-fixed\">\n<p> Angels are whispering:<br \/> (slumbering darkness hides them)<br \/> But sleep vows to reveal phantom eyes.<br \/> They whisper louder, now. <\/p>\n<p> I see, in the torn pages of a book<br \/> fallen from high atop the shelf,<br \/> a distant lake filled with skeleton tears.<br \/> They whisper nearer, now. <\/p>\n<p> A gnarled red oak towers over<br \/> faithful throngs of worshipers shouting aloud:<br \/> &#8220;Hallelujah!&#8221; And only the leaves remember.<br \/> They whisper everywhere, now. <\/p>\n<p> Discovering the coolness of the sinking ocean,<br \/> the sun demands no explanation.<br \/> My bed is cold, the window ajar.<br \/> They whisper terror, now. <\/p>\n<p> And you awaken,<br \/> the light of dawn has not yet begun. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p> <span class=\"update\">Written Spring, 1998<\/span> | <pdf poem_silence_of_angels>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(after Rilke) Angels are whispering: (slumbering darkness hides them) But sleep vows to reveal phantom eyes. They whisper louder, now. I see, in the torn pages of a book fallen from high atop the shelf, a distant lake filled with skeleton tears. They whisper nearer, now. A gnarled red oak towers over faithful throngs of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}