{"id":1387,"date":"2020-11-18T04:54:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T04:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2020-11-18T04:56:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T04:56:57","slug":"queen-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/2020\/11\/18\/queen-tide\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Tide"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

With every King Tide comes its opposite, an extremely low tide. Is it a pauper tide? An anti-king tide? Why does more water get to be king and not more beach? Because it throws a temper tantrum of wanton power on rocks protecting the road and boardwalk?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The extremely low tide is royalty, too. So, I hereby declare the extreme low tide as the Queen tide, an opposite of sorts in the ways that are of importance for my purposes. I hope to show her moods and airs and beauty worthy of a queen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The format for this display is “a sort of American haiku.” (Jose gets credit for the appellation.) I take it to mean to put a little unstructured poetry to a picture, to see it as something more than what is in its bare, wooden frame. That is the theory anyway. Here is the practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A willet standing on the safety of an island rock surrounded by the mirage of a submerged cliff dropping to the sky:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The surf backing off from the resting reef rocks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plovers pulling out the wrinkles of the unkempt sheet of the sea:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plover snipping at its mirrored self:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flock disbanding after patiently watching the end of the day:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cliffs painted on the ephemeral canvas of a silky shore:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The gaudy rouge of an ancient queen tide:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pocked chocolate stairway to Olympus of the tides:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that is it. What, you want an encore? Ok, one more just for you. King and queen both, the monarchy of the tides:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reading Time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>With every King Tide comes its opposite, an extremely low tide. Is it a pauper tide? An anti-king tide? Why does more water get to be king and not more beach? Because it throws a temper tantrum of wanton power on rocks protecting the road and boardwalk? The extremely low tide is royalty, too. So, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions\/1400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}