{"id":2121,"date":"2022-10-20T14:10:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2022-10-20T14:56:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:56:33","slug":"question-in-a-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2022\/10\/20\/question-in-a-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Question In a Question"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

Question In a Question<\/strong><\/p>\n

A favorite
\nteacher asks:<\/p>\n

\u201cIs the writing
\nyou\u2019re offering
\nwhat you most
\nwant to offer?\u201d<\/p>\n

To which I reply:<\/p>\n

Aha!<\/p>\n

I see the question
\nin the question:<\/p>\n

\u201cAm I being
\nWho
\nI most
\nwant to
\nbe?\u201d<\/p>\n

But the answers
\nseem to me
\nto be quite
\ndifferent.<\/p>\n

In writing,
\nI choose this,
\nnot that,
\n(though
\nthe choice
\nalways feels
\npredestined.)<\/p>\n

As for me,
\nBeing Who
\nI most
\nwant to Be
\nwas Answered
\nInfinities ago,<\/p>\n

when the
\nOcean
\ncontained
\nin each drop
\nthat we are
\nsaid
\nI Am.<\/p>\n

* * * * *<\/p>\n

Thank you to
\na favorite teacher,
\nBill Kenower.
\n(https:\/\/www.authormagazine.org\/
\neditorsblog\/2022\/10\/20\/great-expectations<\/a>)<\/p>\n

* * * * *<\/p>\n

\u201cOcean in a drop\u201d by Persian Poet
\nJalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi<\/p>\n

* * * * *<\/p>\n

(Photo by Terry Vlisidis; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Question In a Question A favorite teacher asks: \u201cIs the writing you\u2019re offering what you most want to offer?\u201d To which I reply: Aha! I see the question in the question: \u201cAm I being Who I most want to be?\u201d But the answers seem to me to be quite different. In writing, I choose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t