{"id":311,"date":"2020-03-24T18:25:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T18:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2020-03-24T18:25:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T18:25:28","slug":"top-of-the-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/top-of-the-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Top of the Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Top of the Bridge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nclimb onto the bridge\u2019s railing,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>toss\nyour name into the wind<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but\nit revisits me like the swallow.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nthink I have captured you but <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>then\nyou shift away like the fog<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>underneath\nthe bridge.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nmist net will not catch you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nwatch you float down the river. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nthink I am done with your memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But\nI am not.&nbsp; Grayness mists <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>around\nme.&nbsp; I shiver in the dampness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nwill forever be cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Poetica\nReview&nbsp; spr 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top of the Bridge I climb onto the bridge\u2019s railing, toss your name into the wind but it revisits me like the swallow.&nbsp; I think I have captured you but then you shift away like the fog underneath the bridge.&nbsp; The mist net will not catch you. I watch you float down the river. I&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/top-of-the-bridge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Top of the Bridge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","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\/311","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}