{"id":91971,"date":"2021-06-26T14:12:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91971"},"modified":"2021-06-26T14:34:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:34:07","slug":"prompt-4-using-the-photo-from-prompt-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/prompt-4-using-the-photo-from-prompt-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt #5, using the photo from prompt 4:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Les oiseaux \u00e9trangers\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They say<br \/>\n<em>and who are they <\/em><br \/>\n<em>the wise who know so much about us?<\/em><br \/>\nthat where you live at eight years<br \/>\nis always home.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that is true for more<br \/>\nthan me: my home moored<br \/>\nto an unfixed object<br \/>\nfloating through the years<br \/>\ntethered only to my leaving.<\/p>\n<p>There were birds I looked up<br \/>\nno birds I knew only <em>les oiseaux etrangers<\/em><br \/>\nAlien birds, I\u2019m sure my grandmother<br \/>\nwould call them. But mallards?<br \/>\nWigeons? Pheasant &amp; partridge? Foreign??<\/p>\n<p>But then: what about a river lapwing<br \/>\ndrinking from the Mekong?<br \/>\nTrogons and bee-eaters, barbets<br \/>\npittas and thornbills, ioras<br \/>\nthat masquerade as goldfinches.<\/p>\n<p>My home plotlines blur like reflections.<br \/>\nI float above the villas, slum apartments<br \/>\nlike that unmoored childhood. I have no<br \/>\ntether either. Here between these wild crags<br \/>\nI might be bird, <em>etranger<\/em>. Flying somewhere home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les oiseaux \u00e9trangers\u00a0 &nbsp; They say and who are they the wise who know so much about us? that where you live at eight years is always home. Maybe that is true for more than me: my home moored to an unfixed object floating through&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1411,1173,127],"class_list":["post-91971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-birds","tag-half-marathon","tag-home-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91971","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92349,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91971\/revisions\/92349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}