{"id":221,"date":"2021-03-21T20:05:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T20:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimclarke.net\/?p=221"},"modified":"2021-03-21T20:06:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T20:06:35","slug":"meanwhile-in-a-previous-decade-on-a-previous-continent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2021\/03\/21\/meanwhile-in-a-previous-decade-on-a-previous-continent\/","title":{"rendered":"World Poetry Day 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Happy World Poetry Day. Even in the stasis of global lockdowns, poetry still transports anyone to any time or place, real or imagined, should they only ask. This poem terminates at Lalibela, Ethiopia, sometime in early 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tej<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dancers shrug off the world. Everything that moves here<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>moves from the shoulders down. We drink <em>tej <\/em>and compare with<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fanta Orange. Then dance with the dancers, clumsy, white with brown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A thousand years past, faith slammed into the rock and kept<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>slamming. Mountains bore churches. More people came and keep<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>coming, flecking the hills with fires, life seeking purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We drink <em>tej <\/em>in the smoke-filled hall and clap to drums,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>our sore legs throbbing. Round the fire, dancers shrug off the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We drink more<em> tej. <\/em>They beckon to us, brown shoulders bobbing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy World Poetry Day. Even in the stasis of global lockdowns, poetry still transports anyone to any time or place, real or imagined, should they only ask. This poem terminates at Lalibela, Ethiopia, sometime in early 2011. Tej The dancers shrug off the world. Everything that moves here moves from the shoulders down. We drink &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2021\/03\/21\/meanwhile-in-a-previous-decade-on-a-previous-continent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World Poetry Day 2021&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[128,127],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-uncategorized","tag-ethiopia","tag-poetry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcnZAt-3z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}