{"id":12936,"date":"2011-07-03T08:55:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T13:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=12936"},"modified":"2011-07-03T08:55:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T13:55:34","slug":"poetry-on-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=12936","title":{"rendered":"Poetry on the mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t find a novel I want to read so I&#8217;m back into my poetry &#8211; I read through Lavender&#8217;s chapbook twice, and a few ins and outs of Montlack&#8217;s <em>Cool Limbo<\/em>, and returned again to Mark Strand&#8217;s <em>Man and Camel<\/em> where this poem stopped me and left me breathless:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mother and Son<\/p>\n<p>The son enters the mother\u2019s room<br \/>\nand stands by the bed where the mother lies.<br \/>\nThe son believes that she wants to tell him<br \/>\nwhat he longs to hear\u2014that he is her boy,<br \/>\nalways her boy. The son leans down to kiss<br \/>\nthe mother\u2019s lips, but her lips are cold.<br \/>\nThe burial of feelings has begun. The son<br \/>\ntouches the mother\u2019s hands one last time,<br \/>\nthen turns and sees the moon\u2019s full face.<br \/>\nAn ashen light falls across the floor.<br \/>\nIf the moon could speak, what would it say?<br \/>\nIf the moon could speak, it would say nothing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t find a novel I want to read so I&#8217;m back into my poetry &#8211; I read through Lavender&#8217;s chapbook twice, and a few ins and outs of Montlack&#8217;s Cool Limbo, and returned again to Mark Strand&#8217;s Man and Camel where this poem stopped me and left me breathless: Mother and Son The son enters the mother\u2019s room and stands by the bed where the mother lies. The son believes that she wants to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-3mE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12938,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12936\/revisions\/12938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}