{"id":61,"date":"2008-10-10T20:52:48","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T20:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/?p=61"},"modified":"2011-09-03T13:56:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T20:56:49","slug":"wind-of-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wind-of-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind of February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Chitola Utsanami<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The wind entered through the sills and our nostrils<br \/>\nPlundering our hearth.<\/p>\n<p>You could see it earlier that morning<br \/>\nRaising an army of snow into drifts and then walls.<\/p>\n<p>The fox and the deer felt this army before.<br \/>\nOne went into a deep musky den, the other made a shallow bed under a<br \/>\nshield of fir, fur and fear.<\/p>\n<p>No creature was safe.\u00a0 No one was immune to its progress.<br \/>\nEven a low bearing vole would not dare bore holes in such a snow.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We protected our tent and our naked-ape bodies with blankets and papers.<br \/>\nWe fought the invaders with more fire, cursing words, and red wind.<\/p>\n<p>What was wet became ice, what was wood became iron.<br \/>\nOur soft skin dried up like the desert and our lips sealed all moisture in<br \/>\nLike barnacles at low tide.<\/p>\n<p>We tried to help our canvas and roof from an undulating rage.<br \/>\nThe canvas ripped, the poles gave way, and the guy-ropes vanished in a<br \/>\nwhirlwind of white-mad dust.<\/p>\n<p>We crouched into balls like the fox and the deer taught us to do.<br \/>\nWe surrounded the fire and its heat as in a siege-a last stand.<\/p>\n<p>When all seemed lost, silence replaced the fury and we entered our voices&#8211;again.<br \/>\nAs if waking from a bad dream, it took a few minutes to adjust to a truce-reality.<\/p>\n<p>The wind spent, left not even a small breeze.<br \/>\nThe rocks seemed not to remember the trains and the soldiers, too busy<br \/>\nstaying put.<\/p>\n<p>Something rang in the receding distance as metal clashes with another<br \/>\narmy or head.<br \/>\nWe stood up and tended the wounded: a world of broken branches, rags and<br \/>\nfar-flung pots.<\/p>\n<p>That night, a vole had only to worry about owls, like always.<br \/>\nThat night, we counted stars-they were all there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Chitola Utsanami The wind entered through the sills and our nostrils Plundering our hearth. You could see &#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wind-of-february\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[33,34,32],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-and-prose","tag-poetry","tag-symbolism","tag-winter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4azYr-Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}