{"id":336,"date":"1997-10-30T18:30:21","date_gmt":"1997-10-31T02:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/?p=336"},"modified":"2025-05-10T06:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T10:53:10","slug":"report-from-cutler-maine-october-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/report-from-cutler-maine-october-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from Cutler, Maine, October 1997"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salt shore,<br \/>\nwhere the seaweed grows,<br \/>\nand the tide kneads life<br \/>\nlike dough.<\/p>\n<p>Evening gulls&#8217;<br \/>\nsquawking fades and falters,<br \/>\nand the gulping crows<br \/>\nrevise their last oration.<\/p>\n<p>Little mussels nestle<br \/>\ninto curves of soft<br \/>\ngreen mud,<br \/>\nborrowing space<br \/>\nfrom\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 some\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 stones.<\/p>\n<p>And a lobster laughs<br \/>\nand a cormorant<br \/>\nfollows his fish<br \/>\nalone.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>City, scrape, truck.<br \/>\nSick surplus.<br \/>\nRush return to restless wait.<br \/>\nBack again in nexus.<\/p>\n<p>This desert, flesh<br \/>\nrehearsing sermons,<br \/>\npockmarked shield of mirrors.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, the roaring<br \/>\ntide is pounding, pulling,<br \/>\npounding at the future.<br \/>\nUnless&#8230;<br \/>\nUnless&#8230;<br \/>\nRemember something<br \/>\ncalming, mussels,<br \/>\nstill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salt shore, \/ where the seaweed grows,<br \/>\nand the tide kneads life \/ slow &#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":[223,32,229,233,222,91],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-abrupt","tag-city","tag-ego","tag-future","tag-nature","tag-salt","tag-sea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","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=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3738,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/3738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}