{"id":382,"date":"2020-03-25T15:13:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T15:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/?p=382"},"modified":"2020-03-25T15:13:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T15:13:26","slug":"the-sun-rises-and-sets-to-its-own-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/the-sun-rises-and-sets-to-its-own-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sun Rises and Sets to Its Own Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a>The Sun Rises and Sets To Its Own Time <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have stopped saving daylight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dark comes earlier, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>more time to descend into my icy hole.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winter scrapes away the sun, buries<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the summer\u2019s green in snow, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>freezes warm light into the cold <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of the night. The sun\u2019s rays are short, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>they barely penetrate the pitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I curl up in the darkness and cold<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>until we begin to save next year\u2019s daylight.<\/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; The\nRaven\u2019s Perch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a>The Sun Rises and Sets To Its Own Time <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have stopped saving daylight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dark comes earlier, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>more time to descend into my icy hole.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winter scrapes away the sun, buries<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the summer\u2019s green in snow, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>freezes warm light into the cold <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of the night. The sun\u2019s rays are short, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>they barely penetrate the pitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I curl up in the darkness and cold<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>until we begin to save next year\u2019s daylight.<\/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; The\nRaven\u2019s Perch<\/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; July\n2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 July 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun Rises and Sets To Its Own Time We have stopped saving daylight. The dark comes earlier, more time to descend into my icy hole.&nbsp; Winter scrapes away the sun, buries the summer\u2019s green in snow, freezes warm light into the cold of the night. The sun\u2019s rays are short, they barely penetrate the&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/the-sun-rises-and-sets-to-its-own-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Sun Rises and Sets to Its Own Time<\/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-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","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=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}