{"id":1336,"date":"2022-10-05T13:40:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T18:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2022-10-05T13:43:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T18:43:17","slug":"four-original-poems-by-carolyn-muchhala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1336","title":{"rendered":"Four Original Poems By Carolyn Muchhala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Daybreak Walk<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Oak leaf\ncaught on railing splinter\u2014\nstrange branch!\n\nDew masks the grass\nfootsteps on the path.\n\nUpside down\nbirch trees line the shore.\nA boat glides by.\n\nBlack stone cleaves water\na triple skip!\n\nGull cries\nstone falling toward bottom\nripples widening.\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In the Fullness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">I am created over and again \nby every lightspill under thunderclouds \nand by the clouds themselves sighing \non the river, by every explosion \nof eagle from the ancient white pine \nand by the pine itself which shushes \nthe wind\u2019s complaint.\n\nO the bullfrog drums in his throat\nand wolves\u2019 voices bell\nagainst the darkening moon. My blood howls.             \nGanglia, epidermis, organs, bones\nremember.  There\nwas the beginning, and here,\nhere it comes again.\n\n\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">All Hallow&#8217;s Eve<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Moonlight\ntouches gravestones\nlike pale fingers tracing\nnames into faces, forgotten,\ngrieving.\n\n\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">September<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">The geese\nwere silent\nshadows\ntrailing\ndusk\nfrom fevered\nwings\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I am created over and again&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Mike Soika<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-september-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}