{"id":129519,"date":"2023-09-02T12:22:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129519"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:35:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:35:22","slug":"poem-for-hour-four-4-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/poem-for-hour-four-4-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem for Hour Four (4\/24)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My father takes photos of birds for me now,<\/p>\n<p>He sends them to me from wherever he is,<\/p>\n<p>And the distance doesn&#8217;t feel so great.<\/p>\n<p>Pyrrhuloxia, I tell him, when he captures its beauty on screen,<\/p>\n<p>The dusty red bringing me close to the desert.<\/p>\n<p>White pelicans, he tells me,<\/p>\n<p>When he sends me another.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tears sting my eyes,<\/p>\n<p>Not in the doing, but the remembering,<\/p>\n<p>The missing,<\/p>\n<p><em>Running through fields,\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Chasing the haunting call of a snipe,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Trying to spot it as the light diminished.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Spending time finding ring-necked pheasants,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Teenaged quail and excited robin mothers,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pointing, laughing at frigatebirds on the sandy beaches of Mexico.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father takes photos of birds for me now, He sends them to me from wherever he is, And the distance doesn&#8217;t feel so great. Pyrrhuloxia, I tell him, when he captures its beauty on screen, The dusty red bringing me close to the desert&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129961,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129519\/revisions\/129961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}