{"id":266,"date":"2023-12-06T02:22:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T02:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/19-1\/?page_id=266"},"modified":"2023-12-06T02:22:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T02:22:29","slug":"sand-and-water","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/sand-and-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Sand and Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"126\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"126\">\n<h5>Nico Samuels<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Pillars of fledgling civilization-<\/p>\n<p>Known of us, gave us life<\/p>\n<p>Subtly segregated\u2014lost in the confines of self<\/p>\n<p>-interest<\/p>\n<p>Sand|and|Water<\/p>\n<p>One feels gravity between them<\/p>\n<p>Many are lost in this forced co-habitation<\/p>\n<p>How could these pillars lose themselves so?<\/p>\n<p>Sand:<\/p>\n<p>Stationary, content, complacent; a warm blanket enveloping the land, golden.<\/p>\n<p>Cannot withstand even the smallest wave<\/p>\n<p>Water:<\/p>\n<p>Amorphous, characterless, cunning; taunts the sand; it beckons<\/p>\n<p>Hypnotizes with its swaying; its trademark.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sand will become sediment<\/p>\n<p>On the desolate ocean\u2019s lightless floor<\/p>\n<p>Miniscule life disturbing and kicking it up,<\/p>\n<p>For a new flicker of meaning<\/p>\n<p>Only for it to fall to fate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Samuels Pillars of fledgling civilization- Known of us, gave us life Subtly segregated\u2014lost in the confines of self -interest Sand|and|Water One feels gravity between them Many are lost in this forced co-habitation How could these pillars lose themselves so? Sand: Stationary, content, complacent; a warm blanket enveloping the land, golden. Cannot withstand even the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/sand-and-water\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sand and Water&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-266","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/266\/revisions\/267"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}