{"id":2240,"date":"2016-04-06T15:28:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T15:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2021-08-06T15:29:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T15:29:41","slug":"i-am-a-pattern-of-currents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2016\/04\/06\/i-am-a-pattern-of-currents\/","title":{"rendered":"I am a Pattern of Currents&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am a pattern of currents, each a chord twisting an imprint<br>in the sand. What I do is movement, sometimes the swiftest<br>floodwater, other times a slow curling eddy\u2014the kind fish,<br>thick and slick and full of shadows live entire lives within.<br>I am strands of rivers, streamers of evaporation, the heavy<br>etchings of monsoons\u2014always this need to hum with energy,<br>always this desire to reflect light as diamonds, as stars, <br>to bounce and refract it, to mirror each ray as if it were mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t attempt to read my record in the mud and sand\u2014<br>what you touch there is only what I had once felt. In this<br>way I am so temporary and fortunate to leave an impression,<br>but I am also gone, moving away, following the call of gravity,<br>like a siren\u2019s hymn, it sings to my molecules, it knows my surface tension and I, I am my best when I feed and am fed by the earth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>J. P. Dancing Bear<\/strong> is editor for the <em>American Poetry Journal<\/em> and Dream Horse Press. He is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, most recently, <em>Cephalopodic <\/em>(Glass Lyre Press, 2015), and <em>Love is a Burning Building<\/em> (FutureCycle Press, 2014). His work has appeared or will shortly in <em>American Literary Review, Crazyhorse, DIAGRAM<\/em> and elsewhere. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a pattern of currents, each a chord twisting an imprintin the sand. What I do is movement, sometimes the swiftestfloodwater, other times a slow curling eddy\u2014the kind fish,thick and slick and full of shadows live entire lives within.I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22216],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions\/2241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}