{"id":18,"date":"2008-08-25T16:08:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T20:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=18"},"modified":"2008-08-25T21:22:34","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T01:22:34","slug":"mushrooms-sylvia-plath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Mushrooms &#8211; Sylvia Plath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[audio:mushrooms.mp3] (1:01)<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">read by Sylvia Plath.  audio from <a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\" target=\"blank\">salon.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Overnight, very<br \/>\nWhitely, discreetly,<br \/>\nVery quietly<\/p>\n<p>Our toes, our noses<br \/>\nTake hold on the loam,<br \/>\nAcquire the air.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody sees us,<br \/>\nStops us, betrays us;<br \/>\nThe small grains make room.<\/p>\n<p>Soft fists insist on<br \/>\nHeaving the needles,<br \/>\nThe leafy bedding,<\/p>\n<p>Even the paving.<br \/>\nOur hammers, our rams,<br \/>\nEarless and eyeless,<\/p>\n<p>Perfectly voiceless,<br \/>\nWiden the crannies,<br \/>\nShoulder through holes. We<\/p>\n<p>Diet on water,<br \/>\nOn crumbs of shadow,<br \/>\nBland-mannered, asking<\/p>\n<p>Little or nothing.<br \/>\nSo many of us!<br \/>\nSo many of us!<\/p>\n<p>We are shelves, we are<br \/>\nTables, we are meek,<br \/>\nWe are edible,<\/p>\n<p>Nudgers and shovers<br \/>\nIn spite of ourselves.<br \/>\nOur kind multiplies:<\/p>\n<p>We shall by morning<br \/>\nInherit the earth.<br \/>\nOur foot&#8217;s in the door. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[audio:mushrooms.mp3] (1:01) read by Sylvia Plath. audio from salon.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-soft-fists-insist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}