{"id":41,"date":"2017-04-06T23:15:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T23:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/?p=41"},"modified":"2019-05-08T23:05:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T23:05:12","slug":"a-river-like-a-knife-by-matthew-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/a-river-like-a-knife-by-matthew-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"A River like a Knife by Matthew Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Congratulations to Matthew Lee\u00a0for winning third\u00a0place in The Scripps College Journal Writing Contest with this poem!<br \/>\n<\/strong>~<br \/>\nObserve that water in a wide landscape:<br \/>\nhow enriching and enriched life is,<br \/>\nhow a place\u2019s vitality is measured,<br \/>\ncan be measured, by the birdsong breathing<br \/>\nthrough the trees which trailed that pioneering<br \/>\nriver, itself a demarcation made<br \/>\nas violent as with a cattle-driven blade.<\/p>\n<p>The sound of that water in a wide landscape<br \/>\nis not unlike the sound of crystal, or of<br \/>\ncannon fire, those peopled ornaments<br \/>\nwhich follow that river into an arid place.<br \/>\nBut these are subsidiary considerations;<br \/>\nthose sounds are born of that of water moving<br \/>\nthrough a still or empty space, proving<\/p>\n<p>only the old conspiracy of resemblance:<br \/>\nanything seen is seen again in mirrors<br \/>\nof the airs and motions of a prior time,<br \/>\nits presence marked by copses, shade, or noise,<br \/>\nlesser copies of the original pulse.<br \/>\nX, this is the life you\u2019ve sown into the ground.<br \/>\nX, you are that river, that portentous sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Matthew Lee\u00a0for winning third\u00a0place in The Scripps College Journal Writing Contest with this poem! ~ Observe that water in a wide landscape: how &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-matthew-lee"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}