{"id":857,"date":"2015-01-21T21:59:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T21:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/?p=857"},"modified":"2023-05-24T17:57:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:57:08","slug":"the-sugar-creek-sutras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/2015\/01\/21\/the-sugar-creek-sutras\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Sugar Creek Sutras&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1<br \/>\n<\/strong>Swallows dip and swerve<\/p>\n<p>under dark overhangs<\/p>\n<p>and water drips<br \/>\nfrom those green walls,<\/p>\n<p>slips down the tip of a fern,<br \/>\nas over the bronze<\/p>\n<p>of a temple bell.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2<\/strong><br \/>\nThis stone is an escritoire<br \/>\nnot unlike Mother\u2019s<br \/>\nrolltop desk. It conceals<br \/>\nsmall drawers<br \/>\nfor the storage of ideas.<br \/>\nIt has a ledge for writing<br \/>\nutensils and a lamp<br \/>\nof great wattage some distance<br \/>\nabove.<\/p>\n<p>Often, of a late spring afternoon<br \/>\nsomeone is writing there<br \/>\nwhere the creek cools<br \/>\nher bare instep.<br \/>\n<strong>3<br \/>\n<\/strong>A wren calls<\/p>\n<p>with a voice so like water<br \/>\nwater might do well<br \/>\nto learn her song.<\/p>\n<p>Diminuendo<br \/>\nis her domain.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n4<\/strong><br \/>\nTranslucence\u2014<br \/>\nthe condition of first leaf\u2014<\/p>\n<p>light<br \/>\nintersecting a lattice<\/p>\n<p>that is all<br \/>\nbut nothing\u2014<\/p>\n<p>from this, depends<br \/>\na planet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>5<\/strong><br \/>\nThose dry bronze<br \/>\nleaf covers of the beech tree<br \/>\nsprinkle the forest floor.<\/p>\n<p>And the litter from the tulip<br \/>\npoplar\u2014orange-striped<br \/>\nbits of saffron.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the canopy,<br \/>\na silver maple<br \/>\ncompletes its mosaic.<br \/>\n<strong>6<br \/>\n<\/strong>Autumn will flower in its own way\u2014<\/p>\n<p>less and still less,<br \/>\nthe concision of what is.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n\u2014Marc Hudson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted from<\/em>\u00a0Silk Road Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Swallows dip and swerve under dark overhangs and water drips from those green walls, slips down the tip of a fern, as over the bronze of a temple bell. &nbsp; 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-news-and-notes"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/01\/firstsolo200-copy-1024x682.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}