{"id":7583,"date":"2015-10-01T13:19:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T17:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=7583"},"modified":"2015-11-06T11:57:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T16:57:07","slug":"orchard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=7583","title":{"rendered":"Orchard"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first of October, a poem by Hilda Doolittle, and a painting of Saturday market pears and calendula (growing wild by the Languedoc vineyards and known locally as souci<\/i>).<\/p>\n

\"CalendulaWithPears\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I saw the first pear
\nas it fell-
\nthe honey-seeking, golden-banded,
\nthe yellow swarm
\nwas not more fleet than I,
\n(spare us from loveliness)
\nand I fell prostrate
\ncrying:
\nyou have flayed us
\nwith your blossoms,
\nspare us the beauty
\nof fruit-trees.
\nThe honey-seeking
\npaused not,
\nthe air thundered their song,
\nand I alone was prostrate.
\nO rough-hewn
\ngod of the orchard,
\nI bring you an offering–
\ndo you, alone unbeautiful,
\nson of the god,
\nspare us from loveliness:
\nthese fallen hazel-nuts,
\nstripped late of their green sheaths,
\ngrapes, red-purple,
\ntheir berries
\ndripping with wine,
\npomegranates already broken,
\nand shrunken figs
\nand quinces untouched,
\nI bring you as offering.<\/p>\n

\u2014H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"CakeAutLeaves\"<\/a>Amelia<\/i><\/p>\n

\"CakeOranges\"
\n<\/a><\/i>Honora<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the first of October, a poem by Hilda Doolittle, and a painting of Saturday market pears and calendula (growing wild by the Languedoc vineyards and known locally as souci). I saw the first pear as it fell- the honey-seeking, golden-banded, the yellow swarm was not more fleet than I, (spare us from loveliness) andRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[123,76,39,162,19],"class_list":["post-7583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","tag-autumn","tag-flowers","tag-food","tag-france-2014-15","tag-poem"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7590,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583\/revisions\/7590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}