<div class="line">It’s like peeling an onion.</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">When you’ve been through the layers,</div>
<div class="line">slowly laid them back,</div>
<div class="line">savored the feel of silky skin</div>
<div class="line">you’ve wet with your warm tears;</div>
<div class="line">they fall away like veils and</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">you may reach a certain space.</div>
<div class="line">Tiny niche in a hollow,</div>
<div class="line">peace carved</div>
<div class="line">in a place you’ve never noticed before,</div>
<div class="line">flicker of harmony in a glimmer of light</div>
<div class="line">so tender it will break your heart,</div>
<div class="line">so clear that you may miss it</div>
<div class="line">so simple that you’ll never believe</div>
<div class="line">you solved the puzzle</div>
<div class="line">of your Self</div>
<div class="line">yourself.</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/JosephPuzzle.mp3"></audio></figure>

The Boy in the Well

Come Back

Puzzle

<div class="line">At eleven, I had only seen the “kissing” kind</div>
<div class="line">in the Mumbai aquarium, the platter-flat pink gouramis</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">with enormous lips sucking at each other’s mouths</div>
<div class="line">for an eternity till boredom made me look around</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">for something more shocking. But the edible kind</div>
<div class="line">I never saw until Captain Da Silva happened</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">to catch one in Lake Powai, (where he invited</div>
<div class="line">some sailor friends to fish) its brown-</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">black scales shining like melted chocolate, one white</div>
<div class="line">spot bright near its gills and a line of tinier dots</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">trailing along its spine till they faded</div>
<div class="line">into tail. The men fished for carp, for tilapia,</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">but my little-girl job was to snag bait—slippery</div>
<div class="line">chilvas (that’s what Captain Da Silva called</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">this minnow-like fish), and proud I grew</div>
<div class="line">of my silver arrows darting about in the blue</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">plastic bucket. But I craved big game,</div>
<div class="line">and tried the heavier tackle. A sharp tug</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">at my slack line made me yell, ecstatic</div>
<div class="line">as a shadow emerged—a gourami it was</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">(declared Captain Da Silva, and a good</div>
<div class="line">size too)! Its sulky protruding lips gaped,</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">desperate, and I gasped in horror, and yet</div>
<div class="line">joy fluttered like a hundred fins</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">in the ocean of my chest, while the fishing rod shivered</div>
<div class="line">with the small weight of my prize, the dying fish</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">flipping and flapping on the rough boards</div>
<div class="line">of the wooden machaan. Squeamish at first</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">to pull the barbed torment from its bloody</div>
<div class="line">face, I got bolder, (won much praise</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">from all) for removing the hook</div>
<div class="line">from the thick-lipped mouth that kissed</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">and kissed at the empty air, at the terrifying</div>
<div class="line">churn of demon faces above it, and, gulped</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">the poison oxygen until my dad released it</div>
<div class="line">into a yellow nylon-string net</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">which held the catch, quickly lowering it</div>
<div class="line">into the water. Innocent babe of the lake,</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">frightened soul—pierced, tortured,</div>
<div class="line">suffocating slowly all the way home,</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">betrayed by me (this fierce savior</div>
<div class="line">and lover of animals, this grand Little Lady</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">of No Mercy), and fried crisp that night</div>
<div class="line">at Captain Da Silva’s. Eating two pieces</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">I am told (no mean feat for a girl of such</div>
<div class="line">petite stature), removing the bones</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">with help from my mother, I chatter on</div>
<div class="line">about how I caught it, while the men</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">pat my back, chug Johnny Walker,</div>
<div class="line">tell my dad I have his genes, this was no</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">small catch, a keeper indeed, (wink wink)</div>
<div class="line">the envy of officers and anglers.</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/JosephFish.mp3"></audio></figure>

Like Dust

Into the Metaverse

Gourami Fish Tale

<p style="padding-left: 0px;">As windows darken with winter,<br />her thoughts hang heavy<br />like snow in gray clouds,</p>
<p style="padding-left: 0px;">she rests her head on the arm<br />offered by her old sofa, now<br />worn smooth by her cheek,</p>
<p style="padding-left: 0px;">drapes one pajama-ed leg over the other,<br />curls toes deep into red wool socks<br />flecked with lint,</p>
<p style="padding-left: 0px;">sees her dreams<br />soften like butter, and sleep,<br />lying still like calm dogs,</p>
<p style="padding-left: 0px;">her desires, like seeds<br />filled with sweetness, slow their lust,<br />wait again for that first stirring</p>
<p style="padding-left: 0px;">when she will unwrap her body<br />seduce the ice<br />and plant herself anew.</p>
<p style="text-align: right;"> </p><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/JosephWaiting.mp3"></audio></figure>

OLIVES

Creation

Waiting Inside

Limit result set to products with a specific global product attribute

Limit result set to products with a specific global product attribute term ID (required an assigned attribute).

Limit result set to products with selected global attribute queries.

Limit result set to products assigned a specific category name.

Limit result set to products assigned to a specific group of category IDs.

Limit result set to products not assigned to a specific group of category IDs.

Limit result set to products assigned to a group of specific categories by name.

Limit result set to products not assigned to a group of specific categories by name.

Limit result set to products based on a maximum price.

Limit result set to products based on a minimum price.

What paramater to use to order the objects by.

Use ID to return only children. Use 0 to return only top-level items.

Specify objects whose parent is in an array.

Specify objects whose parent is not in an array.

Limit result set to products with a specific average rating. Must be between 1 and 5

Limit result set to products based on a keyword search.

Limit result set to products assigned a specific shipping class ID.

Limit result set to products with specific SKU(s). Use commas to separate.

Limit result set to products with specific slugs.

Limit result set to products assigned a specific status.

Limit result set to products in stock or out of stock.

Limit result types to types supported by WooGraphQL.

Limit result set to products assigned a specific tag ID.

Limit result set to products assigned to a specific group of tag IDs.

Limit result set to products not assigned to a specific group of tag IDs.

Limit result set to products assigned to a specific group of tags by name.

Limit result set to products not assigned to a specific group of tags by name.

Limit result set with complex set of taxonomy filters.

Limit result set to products assigned a specific type.

Limit result set to products assigned to a group of specific types.

Limit result set to products not assigned to a group of specific types.

Limit result set to products with a specific visibility level.

where

The parent of the node. The parent object can be of various types

parent

The globally unique identifier of the product_variation object.

databaseId

name

date

The local modified time for a post. If a post was recently updated the modified field will change to match the corresponding time.

modified

format

description

Product variation SKU (Stock-keeping unit)

price

regularPrice

salePrice

dateOnSaleFrom

dateOnSaleTo

onSale

status

purchasable

virtual

downloadable

downloads

downloadLimit

downloadExpiry

taxStatus

taxClass

if/how product variation stock is managed

manageStock

stockQuantity

stockStatus

backorders

backordersAllowed

weight

length

width

height

menuOrder

purchaseNote

catalogVisibility

type

image

keysIn

multiple

metaData

Connection between the ProductVariation type and the ProductVariation type

Connection between the Product type and the Product type

preview

Cursor used along with the "first" argument to reference where in the dataset to get data

Cursor used along with the "last" argument to reference where in the dataset to get data

The number of items to return after the referenced "after" cursor

The number of items to return before the referenced "before" cursor

Unique cache key to be produced when this query is stored in an object cache. Default is 'core'.

Term ID to retrieve child terms of. If multiple taxonomies are passed, $child_of is ignored. Default 0.

True to limit results to terms that have no children. This parameter has no effect on non-hierarchical taxonomies. Default false.

Retrieve terms where the description is LIKE the input value. Default empty.

Array of term ids to exclude. If $include is non-empty, $exclude is ignored. Default empty array.

Array of term ids to exclude along with all of their descendant terms. If $include is non-empty, $exclude_tree is ignored. Default empty array.

Whether to hide terms not assigned to any posts. Accepts true or false. Default false

Whether to include terms that have non-empty descendants (even if $hide_empty is set to true). Default true.

Array of term ids to include. Default empty array.

Array of names to return term(s) for. Default empty.

Retrieve terms where the name is LIKE the input value. Default empty.

Array of object IDs. Results will be limited to terms associated with these objects.

Direction the connection should be ordered in

Field(s) to order terms by. Defaults to 'name'.

Whether to pad the quantity of a term's children in the quantity of each term's "count" object variable. Default false.

Parent term ID to retrieve direct-child terms of. Default empty.

Search criteria to match terms. Will be SQL-formatted with wildcards before and after. Default empty.

Array of slugs to return term(s) for. Default empty.

Array of term taxonomy IDs, to match when querying terms.

Whether to prime meta caches for matched terms. Default true.

Connection between the ProductVariation type and the TermNode type

after

before

first

last

Connection between the Product type and the TermNode type

terms

Connection between the ProductVariation type and the visibleProduct type

Connection between the Product type and the visibleProduct type

visibleProducts

Connection between the ProductVariation type and the shippingClass type

Connection between the Product type and the shippingClass type

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items

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