{"id":38727,"date":"2017-08-05T20:57:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38727"},"modified":"2017-08-13T23:36:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T03:36:15","slug":"choir-of-ancients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/choir-of-ancients\/","title":{"rendered":"Choir of Ancients"},"content":{"rendered":"

My hands speak to the sky.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The sky sees my hands as swallows,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

lifting me in forget-me-not<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

lightness.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I will press the birds of my hands<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

into holy Earth when she whispers<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShare your burdens.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

My throat will send my voice<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

to the Choir of Ancients, where we will sing,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

big as Love.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Our Song — flower and falcon,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

newt and fruit and sky and I,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

are blessing all the world<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

right this very instant, and you,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

just sitting there, you!<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

are a vital part of this<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

benediction.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span>J. Pratt-Walter, <\/span>\u00a9<\/span> 8\/5\/201<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My hands speak to the sky. The sky sees my hands as swallows, lifting me in forget-me-not lightness. I will press the birds of my hands into holy Earth when she whispers \u201cShare your burdens.\u201d My throat will send my voice to the Choir of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38727","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\/1133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38727"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44381,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38727\/revisions\/44381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}