{"id":67,"date":"2020-04-23T18:58:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T18:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.donnaspringgulick.com\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2020-07-17T15:09:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T15:09:15","slug":"the-space-between-two-notes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/?page_id=67","title":{"rendered":"The Space Between Two Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Space Between Two Notes<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My life is not this steeply sloping hour<br \/>\nin which you see me hurrying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-113 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_4352_preview.jpeg-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_4352_preview.jpeg-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_4352_preview.jpeg.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My life: the flower opening,<br \/>\nspringtime spreading blossoms<br \/>\nas the winter wind hurls<br \/>\nnegativities upon us all<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My days are not the rush,<br \/>\nthe throb of things undone<br \/>\nthe haze of endless lists,<br \/>\nmaze of making resolutions<br \/>\nto conundrums yet to solve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I am the rest between two notes,<br \/>\nwith tones that clash in discord:<br \/>\nthe fertile void, the Yin,<br \/>\nthe Christ-the-Buddha in my soul,<br \/>\nLight so whole, I am at Peace<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Yet<br \/>\nI rush in notes that<br \/>\nclash, chords that crash.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I am much more<br \/>\nI am the<br \/>\nPeace<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Yet<br \/>\ninto tasks, I find I\u2019m poured;<br \/>\nis it fear to feel I\u2019m bored?<br \/>\nor requisite of life on board<br \/>\nthe phone, the text, the emails&#8217; chord?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In a composition so divine,<br \/>\nI am not this steeply sloping hour<br \/>\nin which you find me hurrying \u2013<br \/>\nI am the Rest<br \/>\nbetween the notes<br \/>\nand&#8230; I am..<br \/>\nthe Dance<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By Donna Spring Gulick (with some borrowed lines from Rainer Maria Rilke)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/poetry\/\"><strong>Return to poetry menu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Space Between Two Notes My life is not this steeply sloping hour in which you see me hurrying. My life: the flower opening, springtime spreading blossoms as the winter wind hurls negativities upon us all My days are not <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/?page_id=67\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":69,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-67","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}