{"id":121,"date":"2018-11-16T18:58:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=121"},"modified":"2018-11-16T18:58:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:58:57","slug":"daydreaming-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/daydreaming-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"DAYDREAMING A POEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DAYDREAMING A POEM<\/strong><br \/>\ntwo fawns bolted from their beds<br \/>\nof brown grass and asters<br \/>\ngot me thinking<br \/>\nabout where the doe was<br \/>\nwhat instructions she&#8217;d had given them<br \/>\nhow long they had seen me<br \/>\ndistracted by the poem I might write<\/p>\n<p>horse swished his tail<br \/>\nhumped his back<br \/>\nstill I was thinking deer<br \/>\nfelt a surge beneath me<br \/>\nwas crow-hopped onto his neck<br \/>\none heel hooked of the saddle<br \/>\none hand twisted in mane<br \/>\nthe other gathering up rein<br \/>\njust hanging in space<br \/>\nsaw the horsefly on his hindquarters<br \/>\nfelt the horse gather<br \/>\nshit<br \/>\ntried to pull myself back<br \/>\njust gave up<br \/>\nslipped to the ground<\/p>\n<p>laughed at myself-<br \/>\nasleep at the reins.<\/p>\n<p>have a laugh on me,<br \/>\nthinking of you <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAYDREAMING A POEM two fawns bolted from their beds of brown grass and asters got me thinking about where the doe was what instructions she&#8217;d had given them how long they had seen me distracted by the poem I might write horse swished his tail humped his back still I was thinking deer felt a&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/daydreaming-a-poem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DAYDREAMING A POEM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}