Wounds <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fallen needles\ncover the ground <\/p>\n\n\n\n
until the\nharvester begins to slash <\/p>\n\n\n\n
through high\ngrade pines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Its dripping\noil stains a rainbow<\/p>\n\n\n\n
in the puddles as\nit bunks the dead <\/p>\n\n\n\n
for the log\nloader. Tires slice <\/p>\n\n\n\n
the red clay\nthat runs like blood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Logging trucks\nchew up the entrance, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
leaving a\nragged wound. Rumbling <\/p>\n\n\n\n
to the sawmill,\nthey drag red <\/p>\n\n\n\n
down the\nhighway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally,\nsilence is the only noise <\/p>\n\n\n\n
that falls. The\ndried ruts of darkened <\/p>\n\n\n\n
blood are\nscattered in what is left. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Spring, little\nblue stem begins to scab <\/p>\n\n\n\n
over wounds,\nsoftens the landscape <\/p>\n\n\n\n
followed by\nthin pines reaching for the sky<\/p>\n\n\n\n
like skin\nhealing over the cut. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wounds Fallen needles cover the ground until the harvester begins to slash through high grade pines. Its dripping oil stains a rainbow in the puddles as it bunks the dead for the log loader. Tires slice the red clay that runs like blood. Logging trucks chew up the entrance, leaving a ragged wound. Rumbling to… Continue reading Wounds<\/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-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","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=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}