{"id":181,"date":"2010-01-14T17:24:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T21:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/?page_id=181"},"modified":"2010-01-14T17:25:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T21:25:44","slug":"the-garden","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/?page_id=181","title":{"rendered":"The Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Garden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Water drops elongate and slide off<\/p>\n<p>The pointed drooping tips<\/p>\n<p>Of the olive green ferns<\/p>\n<p>That velvet the bouncing, silver waterfall.<\/p>\n<p>The water slithers and bounds<\/p>\n<p>Down over the mossy stone steps.<\/p>\n<p>The raucous song of bright blue parrots<\/p>\n<p>Floats on the air where no mosquitoes fly.<\/p>\n<p>(No goddamn flies and mosquitoes in my Garden of Eden!)<\/p>\n<p>My eyes stare blindly at a broad leaf<\/p>\n<p>For they look only inwards and watch<\/p>\n<p>As my lips caress and kiss<\/p>\n<p>The smooth muscular thigh<\/p>\n<p>Which quivers at my touch.<\/p>\n<p>Soft brown breasts rise and fall<\/p>\n<p>Because her tender jewel is burning for me.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe she has just the touch of blue make up<\/p>\n<p>Around her glowing sapphires<\/p>\n<p>To make my Garden of Eden blossom radiantly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; John E Leahy<\/p>\n<p>ca 1972<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Garden Water drops elongate and slide off The pointed drooping tips Of the olive green ferns That velvet the bouncing, silver waterfall. The water slithers and bounds Down over the mossy stone steps. The raucous song of bright blue parrots Floats on the air where no mosquitoes fly. (No goddamn flies and mosquitoes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":0,"parent":100,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-181","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions\/184"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}