{"id":449,"date":"2010-02-28T04:45:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T12:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/?p=449"},"modified":"2010-06-28T05:41:18","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T13:41:18","slug":"like-jimi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/2010\/02\/like-jimi\/","title":{"rendered":"Like Jimi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"jimi_hendrix_biography\"<\/p>\n

There is no there there. The room is here<\/p>\n

and they live inside it. The ceiling seems<\/p>\n

the loneliest place of all, a barren land<\/p>\n

where a spider nests in a corner<\/p>\n

and the music of dried insect shells<\/p>\n

tingles in its threads. The walls<\/p>\n

act as four barriers to the outside.<\/p>\n

Each muffles the shuffling of feet and<\/p>\n

the flapping of wings until living seems<\/p>\n

swallowed in white plaster tombs.<\/p>\n

She sits here, her hair is straight<\/p>\n

and brown and it hangs down<\/p>\n

into the roots of an elm tree, these roots spreading<\/p>\n

sideways. The window thick with ice, rots<\/p>\n

in its frame, and a child sleeps steadily<\/p>\n

inside the room, next to her, inside<\/p>\n

secret dreams. In her dream she cast spells<\/p>\n

on an electric guitar. Like Jimi, in black feathers,<\/p>\n

she blows the amp and crowd\u2019s eardrums off.<\/p>\n

She played that song of wind and snow, wordless<\/p>\n

pine green shadows and icy blues, winter leaves<\/p>\n

of dead summers. There is no there here. She knows<\/p>\n

this. Her child sleeps. The room is here<\/p>\n

and they live inside it. The cord connected<\/p>\n

to the lamp on the table gives weak light.<\/p>\n

Her child smiles at nothing. Then he screams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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