{"id":1164,"date":"2008-07-10T17:33:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T23:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=1164"},"modified":"2008-07-10T17:39:34","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T23:39:34","slug":"7-11-08-the-silence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=1164","title":{"rendered":"7-11-08 the silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=1164\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>7\/9-11\/08<br \/>\nHelsinki<\/p>\n<p>I wait for them to leave first and walk on the other side of the street<br \/>\nMy call is not their call in so many ways<br \/>\nThe need for fuel isn&#8217;t just for the body<br \/>\nBut for the eyes and soul<br \/>\nPredatory viewing, consuming passing people and silent buildings<br \/>\nThe way the light strikes some and caresses others<\/p>\n<p>I mind my words, stay silent, walk and sit alone<br \/>\nEither causing nary a ripple or building concern<\/p>\n<p>A quiet American is not usual, meaning something else<br \/>\nUnlike the thunder of a group of them<br \/>\nA loud song or a table overturned,<br \/>\nA wall of loud cotton entering a McDonalds<\/p>\n<p>Sliding into a local cafe a view of the traffic of life and love available, strong coffee and a polite position<br \/>\nThe dance of invisibility may only be an illusion to me but it&#8217;s my time, my way today<br \/>\nFor the overly verbose blowhard to find a still place beside a sea of strangers<br \/>\nTrapped in my selfish single language<br \/>\nSeeing words that align, ones that certainly don&#8217;t<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll push the same ones around into a different shape, the same view earns another painting,<br \/>\nA lifetime of seeing what the eyes see when filtered by the heart<\/p>\n<p>There is such a sense of community, the city center is alive<br \/>\nNot like the ghost towns of the Midwest and south, their downtowns treated like a husband left for a more passionate lover in the suburbs<br \/>\nBut walking streets filled with stores and cafes,<br \/>\nBicycles and trams keep most cars garaged<br \/>\nAnd the people mix and speak and run into one another,<\/p>\n<p>Happy accidents that a word or two resolve something that a car culture couldn&#8217;t do<\/p>\n<p>Without a lawyer or an insurance company or two<\/p>\n<p>Then adding a soundtrack something else occurs<br \/>\nTheir faces change and the removal of their voices<br \/>\nMakes everyone who passes a portrait in motion<br \/>\nEach detail of their face something worth capturing<br \/>\nBeautiful, damaged, worn, hopeful<br \/>\nThey each have a clear quality with the volume down<\/p>\n<p>The importance of feeding an artist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7\/9-11\/08 Helsinki I wait for them to leave first and walk on the other side of the street My call is not their call in so many ways The need for fuel isn&#8217;t just for the body But for the eyes and soul Predatory viewing, consuming passing people and silent buildings The way the light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1159,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PeNcU-iM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1164\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}