{"id":1416,"date":"2023-03-15T14:27:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T19:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2023-03-15T14:27:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T19:27:20","slug":"looking-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1416","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Carolyn Muchhala<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A doe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">stands against the blade<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">of light, ears pricked<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and sloe eyes wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">I have hollowed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><em>a space between darkness<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; and the glass.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wind<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">stirs apple blossom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">petals&#8211;the skins<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">of new moons<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><em>my life, a prelude<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; to this poem:<\/em> a deer,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; moonlight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">on grass, the wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First published in <em>Amelia<\/em>, v. 4, no. 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have hollowed\/a space between darkness\/and the glass<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Pixabay Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-march-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","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=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/1446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}