{"id":268,"date":"2018-11-16T19:31:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=268"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:31:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:31:01","slug":"window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/window\/","title":{"rendered":"Window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Window<\/strong><br \/>\nthe trees<br \/>\n\t naked   in the passing winter<br \/>\n\t\tare clothed   in their best spring greenery<br \/>\nno leaf<br \/>\n\ttorn by hail   or curled to hide an egg<br \/>\n\t\ta breeze touches the understory    skips from tree to tree<br \/>\nthe nuthatch<br \/>\n\t hikes up the walnut   slips its bill<br \/>\n\t\t under the bark   for an insect hiding from the cold<br \/>\na chickadee<br \/>\n\tflits back and forth   from the feeder<br \/>\n\t\tpounds   the sunflower seed open<br \/>\nthe redbud<br \/>\n\tshows its magenta dress   to introduce the spring<br \/>\n\t\tthe warbler lingers   on the branch to catch<br \/>\nan early gnat<br \/>\n\tsummer leaves tremble   in the wind that precedes<br \/>\n\t\tthe storm   shudder from drops that pummel them<br \/>\nyellow-billed cuckoo<br \/>\n\tslinks through the canopy  leaves tire<br \/>\n\t\tsourwood reddens   green poplar fades into yellow  <\/p>\n<p>the morning light<br \/>\n\toutlines the downy woodpecker   hitching up the sycamore&#8217;s trunk<br \/>\n\t\tthe trees sulk   under a pewter sky<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Four Seasons Anthology<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJune 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Window the trees naked in the passing winter are clothed in their best spring greenery no leaf torn by hail or curled to hide an egg a breeze touches the understory skips from tree to tree the nuthatch hikes up the walnut slips its bill under the bark for an insect hiding from the cold&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/window\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Window<\/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-268","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\/268","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=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}