{"id":1732,"date":"2024-12-21T10:20:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T16:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2024-12-21T10:20:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T16:20:34","slug":"white-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1732","title":{"rendered":"White Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Mason Pfaff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Flowers on every road <br>lead me to my grave stones<br>There's a blue box, my heirloom.<br>A white stone white stone<br>A name not my own<br><br>I'll smell every one,<br>I'll find my name in the Popol Vuh.<br>White stone white stone <br>Bearing your maiden name<br><br>Palm branches laid on Monday<br>Skipped town Friday,<br>what I would do I do not know.<br>White stone white stone <br>My father's name is put on me<br><br>Names I do not know.<br>Names that came before <br>etched on a blue box,<br>my heirloom for storage<br>White stone white stone<br>My father's name has grown on me<br><br>I visit the old creek;<br>It trickles as before, <br>When my dog brought back a deer antler<br>And I fell in through the ice<br>White stone white stone<br>My father's sins my own<br><br>No names underwater,<br>No names beneath the ice<br>I breathe the cold water,<br>I reach the river's mouth<br>There with all from before,<br>Soon with all yet to be.<br><br>No white stone no white stone,<br>I know all the names, <br>The blue box is full and passed down again<br>No white stone, oh white stone,<br>I know this name, <br>Oh white stone oh white stone <br>It is my own, it is my own, it is my own<br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: The poem &#8211; White Stones &#8211; was originally published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.writtentales.com\/?s=white+stone\">Written Tales,<\/a> an online publication, in April of 2024 and is shown here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flowers on every road<br \/>\nlead me to my grave stones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dec-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}