{"id":536,"date":"2026-10-14T16:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=536"},"modified":"2026-10-14T16:00:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:00:01","slug":"grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/grief\/","title":{"rendered":"Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a>Grief<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It tumbles like a torrent from the sky<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">soaking the ground. Drowns the newly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">planted grass in a cloudburst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I focus a prism on sorrow to see<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">if hope can be found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I can see none, only forests<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">razed to the ground, mountains<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">stripped of their tops. I notice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">only the world being torn down,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">dug up, burned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sorrow covers me with smog<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and disease.&nbsp; It forms its own glacier<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">that slides down to cover<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">my thoughts with soot and dust<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">from distant corners of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the lengthening days, I wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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 Hoolet\u2019s Nook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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. 15. 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grief It tumbles like a torrent from the sky soaking the ground. Drowns the newly planted grass in a cloudburst. I focus a prism on sorrow to see if hope can be found. But I can see none, only forests razed to the ground, mountains stripped of their tops. I notice only the world being&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/grief\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grief<\/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-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","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=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}