{"id":4975,"date":"2024-08-02T16:20:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T23:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?p=4975"},"modified":"2025-03-14T15:10:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T22:10:03","slug":"viaticum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/viaticum\/","title":{"rendered":"Viaticum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through Michoac\u00e1n where clouds<br \/>\nmake up a second landscape in the sky,<br \/>\nI nurse the fare you meted out<br \/>\nin a spare cork-stoppered jar,<br \/>\na journey\u2019s worth of mezcalito,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><br \/>\nin lieu of salt, a bit of Aristotle.<\/p>\n<p>The bus grinds on. My gaze rises<br \/>\npast tassles of corn and cactus lobes<br \/>\nand hawks whose spirals shape the sky.<br \/>\nUp where the billows gape glistens<br \/>\nan aerial lake, on that lake&#8217;s edge,<br \/>\na nebulous sierra mirage.<\/p>\n<p>From clouds come clouds come clouds.<br \/>\n<i>Vac\u00edo sin macizo no\u00a0se puede ser.<\/i><br \/>\nEmptiness needs\u00a0vessels to hold its spill.<br \/>\nGoing needs somewhere to go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through Michoac\u00e1n where clouds make up a second landscape in the sky, I nurse the fare you meted out in a spare cork-stoppered jar, a journey\u2019s worth of mezcalito,\u00a0 \u00a0 in lieu of salt, a bit of Aristotle. The bus grinds on. My gaze rises past tassles of corn and cactus lobes and hawks whose &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/viaticum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Viaticum&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-4975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","tag-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4975"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5050,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975\/revisions\/5050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}