{"id":13151,"date":"2026-10-31T21:54:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T21:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=13151"},"modified":"2026-11-01T00:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T00:16:24","slug":"more-carpet-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=13151","title":{"rendered":"More Carpet Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some may have been confused by my last post, which suggested that you could walk on a poem. I actually had another poem on my mind, when I wrote that post. It was the poem for October 26. I couldn\u2019t write that day so I couldn\u2019t live this poem on its special day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"687\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_0930-687x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13149\" style=\"width:343px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_0930-687x1024.jpg 687w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_0930-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_0930-768x1144.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_0930.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cloths of Heaven <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five years ago my husband died on October 26. For 45 years we walked the delicate carpets of our dreams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He gave me the space I needed to design in lace. These are my cloths of Heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"251\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/clothssun2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11955\" style=\"width:363px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/clothssun2.jpg 251w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/clothssun2-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I embroidered his memory from the cloths of his life into the patchwork of my new life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"996\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_0932-996x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13150\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.9726575421447337;width:426px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_0932-996x1024.jpg 996w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_0932-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_0932-768x789.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_0932-1495x1536.jpg 1495w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_0932.jpg 1946w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 996px) 100vw, 996px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kites for his soul to soar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Together we lived a charmed life. Alone sometimes I feel like wrapping myself in the blanket of a poem or wearing one as a shawl or scarf or even a pair of mitts. Poems to clothe the body and comfort the soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some may have been confused by my last post, which suggested that you could walk on a poem. I actually had another poem on my mind, when I wrote that post. It was the poem for October 26. I couldn\u2019t write that day so I couldn\u2019t live this poem on its special day. Five years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13151"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13163,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13151\/revisions\/13163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}