{"id":6372,"date":"2020-01-06T07:48:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T12:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=6372"},"modified":"2020-01-01T16:32:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T21:32:10","slug":"almontes-riverview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=6372","title":{"rendered":"Almonte&#8217;s Riverview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_7698-2-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7698 (2)\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_7698-2-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_7698-2-1024x757.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_7698-2-900x665.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_7698-2-450x333.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The river rapids are swollen, gushing with Spring&#8217;s anticipation;<\/p>\n<p>my gaze sweeps upwards beyond the falls and spray.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m elevated, suspended somewhere above the rocks,<\/p>\n<p>the deafening noise and the surge and the fury.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m hung there, numbed senseless by my creative drought,<\/p>\n<p>whilst the clapping echo of the pregnant Mississippi<\/p>\n<p>dances through my soul&#8217;s cavity, pulling at my empty thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>I moisten my lips with the spray, then turn the corner of Mill Street<\/p>\n<p>to retrieve my daily bundle of flyers and bills from the post office.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Chris George<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(ed. &#8211; This poem was written in Spring 2013, since our family&#8217;s move to Almonte. It is one poem in a compilation of verse just released under the title of <\/em>Midstep &#8211; A dozen poems towards where I want to be<em>. To get your copy of <\/em>Midstep<em>, contact chrisg.george@gmail.com.)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/walking-349991_640-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"walking-349991_640\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/walking-349991_640-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/walking-349991_640-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/walking-349991_640.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MIDSTEP &#8211; A dozen poems towards where I want to be<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The river rapids are swollen, gushing with Spring&#8217;s anticipation; my gaze sweeps upwards beyond the falls and spray. I&#8217;m elevated, suspended somewhere above the rocks, the deafening noise and the surge and the fury. I\u2019m hung there, numbed senseless by my creative drought, whilst the clapping echo of the pregnant Mississippi dances through my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6390,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372\/revisions\/6390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}