{"id":17207,"date":"2023-03-16T20:53:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T00:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=17207"},"modified":"2023-03-16T20:53:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T00:53:46","slug":"sonnet-all-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=17207","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet: All at Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <strong>James Lawrence<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>All at Sea<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"rightbox\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GhostShip.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GhostShip-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Ghost Ship\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GhostShip-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GhostShip-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GhostShip-90x51.jpg 90w, https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GhostShip.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Night is at its nadir and the moon-scythe&#8217;s light<br \/>\nGets mocked to dizziness in the drunken sea;<br \/>\nThe tomb of fish-shoals spittles up its spite,<br \/>\nAnd glimmering squid-hordes dream and breed in me.<\/p>\n<p>Hail has hammered me in my open cot,<br \/>\nAnd freezing ice-floes fettered me to standstill;<br \/>\nAnd the sink of rivers, swelling as it rots,<br \/>\nSpreads out more wave-halls long before my land-sill.<\/p>\n<p>Still I&#8217;ll not despire to no mermaid&#8217;s rock;<br \/>\nI plot one hundred paths to my beloved;<br \/>\nBut her liquid heart sits hard behind its lock;<br \/>\nI pitch, and toss, one hundred tries rebuff\u00e8d.<\/p>\n<p>The sun-brand swelters, and the salt-sick main<br \/>\nMists up, distills this whispering refrain.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-17207-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AllAtSea_Audio.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AllAtSea_Audio.m4a\">https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AllAtSea_Audio.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Night is at its nadir and the moon-scythe\u2019s light gets mocked to dizziness in the drunken sea <span class=\"continue-reading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=17207\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17213,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17207\/revisions\/17213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}