{"id":2817,"date":"2017-05-25T06:53:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T13:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=2817"},"modified":"2020-06-25T00:48:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T07:48:03","slug":"breaking-bread-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/breaking-bread-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Bread with Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(A poem dusted off from the archives. Polished with <em>The Snow Leopard in mind<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>A lone surfer paddles for a Sunday wave.<\/p>\n<p>A sea lion parallels through the morning teal.<\/p>\n<p>Seafaring mammals nod to one another.<\/p>\n<p>They speak the language older than words.<\/p>\n<p>Land sucks.<\/p>\n<p>Never get in the boat.<\/p>\n<p>Find a lake that has never seen a boat.<\/p>\n<p>They do exist in Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>A gull eats two hunks of my Tillamook cheese.<\/p>\n<p>Another gull tears a clam apart at the wrack line.<\/p>\n<p>I hurl a slice of fruitcake to the gull.<\/p>\n<p>He nods, too.<\/p>\n<p>A driftwood fort decays behind me.<\/p>\n<p>The other fort I built is gone.<\/p>\n<p>Driftwood is waiting.<\/p>\n<p>I build alone, waiting.<\/p>\n<p>Sandpipers and sanderlings dart in the wet sand.<\/p>\n<p>They make sustainable laws by silent acclimation.<\/p>\n<p>Wind blows.<\/p>\n<p>The south jetty disintegrates.<\/p>\n<p>A freighter brings and old ocean over the bar.<\/p>\n<p>A sand dollar cashes out.<\/p>\n<p>I sit on a white driftlog.<\/p>\n<p>I eat my breakfast and break bread with birds.<\/p>\n<p>I write on a 20-year old plastic toy.<\/p>\n<p>The log will outlast us both.<\/p>\n<p>A crow emerges.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s scouting fruitcake.<\/p>\n<p>The gull blocks him out like a quality power forward.<\/p>\n<p>Tangerine peels will suffice.<\/p>\n<p>Cirrus clouds begin to give way.<\/p>\n<p>The sun bides its burnout time.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere a Prometheus is still chained to a rock.<\/p>\n<p>But not here.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2817\" data-postid=\"2817\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2817 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(A poem dusted off from the archives. Polished with The Snow Leopard in mind.) A lone surfer paddles for a Sunday wave. A sea lion parallels through the morning teal. Seafaring mammals nod to one another. They speak the language older than words. Land sucks. Never get in the boat. Find a lake that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,42],"tags":[36,191,189,6,96,52,48,13,190,88],"class_list":["post-2817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-poetry","tag-beaches","tag-birds","tag-gulls","tag-matt-love","tag-ocean","tag-oregon","tag-oregon-beaches","tag-oregon-coast","tag-oregon-poetry","tag-poetry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2819,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions\/2819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}