{"id":363,"date":"2020-03-24T19:09:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T19:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/?p=363"},"modified":"2020-03-24T19:09:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T19:09:25","slug":"surrounded-by-daffodils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/surrounded-by-daffodils\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrounded by Daffodils"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a>Surrounded by Daffodils<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toast brown, he and the mule plow ridges\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>for tobacco. A sweet spring flows <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>from the hills to his forty acres. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Waiting for autumn\u2019s crop, the\nweathered barn <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>stands empty. Mornings, his wife\ntends <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>chickens, scatters corn, collects eggs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She makes biscuits and milk gravy <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>from last evening\u2019s meal, hangs wash\nto dry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, driving past on the four lane&#8211;all\nthat is left <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>is the listing barn covered with\npoison ivy, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>chinking between the timbers dried <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and falling out, metal roof peeled\nopen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furrows are filled with Little Blue Stem\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and Queen Anne\u2019s Lace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the old stone foundation\nencircled <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by the daffodils she had\nplanted.<\/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; Front\nPorch Review<\/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; Jan\n2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surrounded by Daffodils Toast brown, he and the mule plow ridges for tobacco. A sweet spring flows from the hills to his forty acres. Waiting for autumn\u2019s crop, the weathered barn stands empty. Mornings, his wife tends chickens, scatters corn, collects eggs. She makes biscuits and milk gravy from last evening\u2019s meal, hangs wash to&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/surrounded-by-daffodils\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Surrounded by Daffodils<\/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-363","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\/363","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=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}