{"id":330,"date":"2005-11-30T18:58:42","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T02:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/the-mind-of-abrupt\/2005\/11\/30\/shore-story-with-a-nod-to-terence-mckenna\/"},"modified":"2010-03-09T08:32:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T16:32:25","slug":"shore-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/shore-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Shore Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>microscopic multiplying,<br \/>\ngreat shapes nudging towards becoming.<br \/>\nsomething down there.<br \/>\npond scum rippling,<br \/>\ngreen waves lap my feet.<\/p>\n<p>then at once the pond explodes,<br \/>\nin fountains spiral up,<br \/>\nan agony of peptides.<br \/>\ngeyser spinning, spinning,<br \/>\nfolding in upon itself.<br \/>\nand the sound washes over me.<\/p>\n<p>fifty thousand cycles:<br \/>\nsunning Hell days dusty rocks,<br \/>\nalbumen sucked from shattered eggs,<br \/>\nflapping panicked wings\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\na smear of blood on the savannah.<\/p>\n<p>biology, the manic squawking<br \/>\nover wave-assaulted rocks<br \/>\ncompounded, trilobyte, exertion,<br \/>\nrainfall stirs the smell of ferns.<br \/>\nand organism slithers onto throne.<\/p>\n<p>from shore I see it rolling on<br \/>\ntowards completion of a sort,<br \/>\nwhich I will never know \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nexcept as cells<br \/>\nknow the mysteries of music,<br \/>\nthe sadness beneath the laughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>microscopic multiplying, \/ great shapes nudging towards becoming &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[197,68,201,255],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-abrupt","tag-evolution","tag-history","tag-transformation","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}