{"id":176485911,"date":"2023-08-13T18:18:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T23:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176485911"},"modified":"2024-04-20T23:49:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T04:49:35","slug":"kalamus-will-and-testament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2023\/08\/13\/kalamus-will-and-testament\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalamu&#8217;s Will And Testament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"501\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/BW-Shana-Eric-Kalamu-Girard-8260-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-176485914\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/BW-Shana-Eric-Kalamu-Girard-8260-3.jpg 501w, http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/BW-Shana-Eric-Kalamu-Girard-8260-3-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/BW-Shana-Eric-Kalamu-Girard-8260-3-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">foto by Eric Waters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When I die<br \/>I want to be everywhere<br \/>And nowhere<br \/>Previously unknown but always rediscovered<br \/>A sliver of sunlight at each new dawn<br \/>A fading, glowing ember at each exhausted nightfall<br \/>When I die<br \/>Let the cooing of turtle doves<br \/>Be both the soundtrack of my arrival<br \/>As well as the departing train\u2019s moan, whistleling<br \/>The sounding that I am gone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>What is there to say<br \/>I am a faded away taste<br \/>On the lips of joy, the moment<br \/>Of brief but unforgettable exhilaration lovers know<br \/>When they carnally come together<br \/>The rainbow memory that disappears but<br \/>Is always there, coloring each emerging emotion<br \/>Of the inextinguishable love humans can&nbsp;have<br \/>For each other, for rewarding toil<br \/>In the fields of our lives as we cry<br \/>Joy tears that announce both our arrivals<br \/>And departures, we are an ancient future<br \/>A dying albeit recurring eternal moment of fecundity<br \/>That will always blossom regardless<br \/>Of the ashy finality of death<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>Let our laughters echo<br \/>Throughout the centuries of non-existence<br \/>There is no need for pity, although we never last<br \/>We are always here<br \/>Wine on the breadth of every final gasp,<br \/>Every grave in reality, just another beautiful<br \/>Plot of resurrection, an eternal<br \/>Hello and goodbye!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I dieI want to be everywhereAnd nowherePreviously unknown but always rediscoveredA sliver of sunlight at each new dawnA fading, glowing ember at each exhausted nightfallWhen I dieLet the cooing of turtle dovesBe both the soundtrack of my arrivalAs well as the departing train\u2019s moan, whistlelingThe sounding that I am gone What is there to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176485911"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176485911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176485911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176485917,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176485911\/revisions\/176485917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176485911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176485911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176485911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}