{"id":2032,"date":"2013-07-15T16:23:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T13:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=2032"},"modified":"2013-07-15T16:23:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T13:23:45","slug":"the-voices-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=2032","title":{"rendered":"The voices of water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"rainbow_water_colour_by_mu6\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rainbow_water_colour_by_mu6.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2033\" alt=\"rainbow_water_colour_by_mu6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rainbow_water_colour_by_mu6-250x250.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rainbow_water_colour_by_mu6-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rainbow_water_colour_by_mu6-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">The voices of water<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The voices of mountain water<br \/>slide down slope, shying at shallows,<br \/>circle through sandy-bottomed sinks,<br \/>shifting stones.\u00a0 \u201cSee,\u201d they sing in unison,<br \/>\u201cWe shelter fish, sift gravel, sail fallen trees<br \/>off to shore somewhere else,<br \/>satisfy thirst and soul, make things grow.<br \/>We are a Sierra stream.\u201d<br \/>But at night they disagree:\u00a0 Creek, Stream, River?<br \/>Rivulet, Waterway, Snowmelt, Rapids?<br \/>The shared sound they sashayed downstream with<br \/>disappears as sunlight does.<br \/>Stars appear in eddies;\u00a0 Stream takes off its mask<br \/>and it\u2019s every splash for itself:<br \/>arias, arguments, yarnspinners and baritones.<br \/>Valkyries, lovers, distant mothers and owls.<br \/>Ghostriders, clowns.\u00a0 Hounds and whistlers.<br \/>All night the voices of water dance naked on the boulders.<br \/>They push and shove, bellow and bark.<br \/>They do-si-do, squeak, hoot and hum.<\/p>\n<p>In the morning they whisper in unison.<br \/>They know how to look<br \/>like a small mountain stream.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0 Teresa McNeil MacLean<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2035,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}