{"id":245,"date":"2018-11-16T19:25:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=245"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:25:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:25:27","slug":"still-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/still-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Still Life<\/strong><br \/>\nI<br \/>\nFeeding,<br \/>\ntipping brown head<br \/>\nbeneath the lake\u2019s water,<br \/>\nits blue legs pedaling in air,<br \/>\nlone duck.<\/p>\n<p>II<br \/>\nMallards<br \/>\nidle by river\u2019s edge<br \/>\ngreen headed male, drab mate.<br \/>\nBrown water ripples their shadow<br \/>\ndownstream.<\/p>\n<p>III<br \/>\nFloating<br \/>\non jade water<br \/>\namidst the feeding birds,<br \/>\nstrings of razorbills winging, a<br \/>\nloon wails.<\/p>\n<p>Judge: Robert Parham<br \/>\nNumber of qualified submissions: 47<\/p>\n<p>1st place: Jenny Hubbard, \u201cPhilip Larkin (First in English Literature, St. John&#8217;s College, Oxford) Takes a Job Shelving Books\u201d<br \/>\n2nd place: Barbara Brooks, \u201cStill Life\u201d<br \/>\n3rd place: Sharon A. Sharp, \u201cThe Pursuit\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Honorable Mentions: <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Janet Warman, \u201cLove Pantoum for Andy\u201d \u2022 Jeanne Julian, \u201cThe Light\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Judge\u2019s comments: \u201cThe prize winning poems could hardly be more different. The first place poem, \u2018Philip Larkin\u2026.\u2019; is a sonnet capturing not simply its literal subject (Larkin) but reflecting as well the tone of his work and his temper (one suspects). It is a poem complete\u2014no small accomplishment. \u2018Still Life,\u2019 the second place poem, offers completeness in an utterly Eastern fashion, its fine and quiet imagery both its heart and its being. In third, \u2018The Pursuit\u2019 illustrates well how qualitatively close these top poems were. Confident in its form and the weight of its refrains, the poem settles within itself, a pleasure to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still Life I Feeding, tipping brown head beneath the lake\u2019s water, its blue legs pedaling in air, lone duck. II Mallards idle by river\u2019s edge green headed male, drab mate. Brown water ripples their shadow downstream. III Floating on jade water amidst the feeding birds, strings of razorbills winging, a loon wails. Judge: Robert Parham&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/still-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Still Life<\/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-245","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\/245","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=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}