{"id":71659,"date":"2020-06-27T21:50:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=71659"},"modified":"2020-06-27T21:50:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:50:53","slug":"hour-13-all-the-gifts-in-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-13-all-the-gifts-in-the-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 13:  All the gifts in the trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each time I pace this route<br \/>\nI see new offerings<br \/>\n3 doves, the gloss of the holly<br \/>\nif there is a time to feel mortal, it is now.<\/p>\n<p>all the plums are forming, an altar under a tree<br \/>\na bottle hangs on a branch<br \/>\nWe better pray, better pray<br \/>\nfor a bubble of fresh air<\/p>\n<p>turn their up golden faces and hands<br \/>\nstretch their pale fingers<br \/>\nlooking for leaf skeletons under<br \/>\na tree with no name<\/p>\n<p>see the tracks of animals<br \/>\nthe knot protrudes and encircles itself<br \/>\nnameless, dropping fruit<br \/>\na succulent pricks up like a hedgehog<\/p>\n<p>2 finches on a wire, one red, one brown<br \/>\nI&#8217;m reminded the female is plainer<br \/>\nthe man who makes the music is moving on<br \/>\nhis talents are wasted here<\/p>\n<p>do you know about eucalyptus flowers<br \/>\nor the stones tiny hands are painting?<br \/>\nfungus like oysters on a tree stump?<br \/>\nand the moss that hangs from a stale pine<\/p>\n<p>Each time I pace this route,<br \/>\nI see new offerings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each time I pace this route I see new offerings 3 doves, the gloss of the holly if there is a time to feel mortal, it is now. all the plums are forming, an altar under a tree a bottle hangs on a branch We&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71659","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\/1179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71950,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71659\/revisions\/71950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}