{"id":37404,"date":"2017-08-05T18:46:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37404"},"modified":"2017-08-05T18:47:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:47:35","slug":"a-quatern-for-iris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/a-quatern-for-iris\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quatern for Iris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A grey dove, wingtips dipped in red,<br \/>\nhangs from the jaws of my Iris&#8211;<br \/>\na hound as old as she is shocked<br \/>\nat her surprising retrieval.<\/p>\n<p><em>Look what I\u2019ve managed to bring you&#8211;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> this small dove with bloody wingtips<\/em>,<br \/>\nshe says with two eyes, one bright; one<br \/>\nclouded by too much excitement,<\/p>\n<p>packed into so many dull years.<br \/>\n<em>See, I\u2019m wagging my tail. See,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> this grey dove with a broken wing&#8211;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I caught this for you<\/em>. No need for<\/p>\n<p>concern over the advanced years;<br \/>\nsuccess makes her spry again, makes<br \/>\nher stiff joints loosen with pride. <em>Here:<\/em><br \/>\n<em> a small, broken bird. Make it whole.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37436\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dove-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dove-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dove-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dove.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grey dove, wingtips dipped in red, hangs from the jaws of my Iris&#8211; a hound as old as she is shocked at her surprising retrieval. Look what I\u2019ve managed to bring you&#8211; this small dove with bloody wingtips, she says with two eyes, one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2431,2223],"class_list":["post-37404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-poemten","tag-poetryhalfmarathon2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37404","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\/988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37453,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37404\/revisions\/37453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}