{"id":378,"date":"2020-03-25T15:09:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T15:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/?p=378"},"modified":"2020-03-25T15:09:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T15:09:19","slug":"yellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/yellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a>Yellow <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fireflies hide on stems<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of unmown grass,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>wait for dusk.&nbsp; The falling sun <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>pulls them up.&nbsp; Five, six, ten lift <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>themselves three, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>four, twelve feet into the\ntrees.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their abdomens flash <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>yellow, their wings blur. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the still morning, tiger <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>swallowtails drop from underneath <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>green leaves.&nbsp; They tease nectar <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>from the buddlea. Unheard, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>their wings flutter as they<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to wander. Like boxers, two spar <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>upward.&nbsp; Like Japanese <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>lanterns, ten now twenty <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>hang from purple flowers.<\/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; rosette\nmaleficarum<\/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; spring\n2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yellow Fireflies hide on stems of unmown grass, wait for dusk.&nbsp; The falling sun pulls them up.&nbsp; Five, six, ten lift themselves three, four, twelve feet into the trees.&nbsp; Their abdomens flash yellow, their wings blur. In the still morning, tiger swallowtails drop from underneath green leaves.&nbsp; They tease nectar from the buddlea. Unheard, their&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/yellow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yellow<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","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=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}