{"id":646,"date":"2020-07-30T20:46:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T20:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=646"},"modified":"2020-10-02T16:05:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T16:05:13","slug":"must-be-the-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2020\/07\/30\/must-be-the-matrix\/","title":{"rendered":"Must be The Matrix&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-30-2020-two-trees.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-647\" width=\"241\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-30-2020-two-trees.jpg 965w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-30-2020-two-trees-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-30-2020-two-trees-768x641.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-30-2020-two-trees-323x270.jpg 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/audio\/Binary.m4a?_t=1596150343\"><\/audio><figcaption><strong>Barbara reads her new poem, BINARY. Hope you enjoy<\/strong>!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.3\"><br><strong><em>Binary\/Two\/Paired\/Duet<\/em><\/strong><br><br>Tree\u2019s leaves weave numbers<br>travelling through a lone bird\u2019s\u00a0<br>bill releasing sweet trills which\u00a0<br>arouse our sacred slumber.<br>Aqua, water, hydro-flow<br>cleave your numbers, H2O<br>on tidal waves we<br>row and row and row.<br><br>Now, gaze into it ~<br>your canoe shudders through it\u2026.<br>numbers, all those billions of<br>numbers, still slumbering sound.<br>If all and all reduces\u00a0<br>to one, or zero,<br>or both ~ remember<br>numbers cannot run<br>but CAN bequeath us<br>Run\u2019s Code: leg up.<br><br>Intense, its gesture slowed to<br>paper and pen and<br>bold strokes of a brush<br>flushed with exertion.<br>Grave, this assertion of the<br>Binary Code as<br>its Binary Vapor births ~<br>the Digitized Soul?<br><br>God surely thinks in numbers,<br>in zeroes and ones:<br>math-e-mat-i-cal heroes<br>and Prodigal Sons<br>or Daughters returning to<br>sow, where races can\u2019t be won<br>and nothing can grow.<br><br>Only God knows what<br>efforts we make to<br>create our numerical<br>lives, thus, embracing our Fates.<br>But numbers can\u2019t lie ~<br>no, they cannot spin a tale<br>so, yes, in the end<br>whether feather or whale<br>only Energy matters ~<br>(and all Matter is THAT)<br>though, doesn\u2019t matter THAT much<br>\u2018cause those beautiful numbers<br>can\u2019t respond to our sight, smell<br>or touch. Can\u2019t respond to our<br>Breath ~ to your whisper<br>until they construct<br>sweet roses or rivers or<br>sweet grasses and such\u2026.<br><br><br><br><br><br>by Barbara Helvey Hughes, 6-30-2018\/3-14-19\/7-30-2020 for PFM<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>01\/01\/001\/1001\/01\/001\/100101\/01<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}