{"id":80,"date":"2018-11-16T18:32:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=80"},"modified":"2018-11-16T18:32:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:32:29","slug":"evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"EVOLUTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EVOLUTION<\/strong><br \/>\nThe squirrel&#8217;s brain, small as a walnut.<br \/>\nIt must learn to measure the distance<br \/>\nfrom limb to bird feeder, to steal seed.<br \/>\nAfter acorns fall, it hides them<br \/>\nunder oak leaves, in a bird house. <\/p>\n<p>The crow gathers bright objects,<br \/>\neven quarters, to adorn its nest.<br \/>\nIt swarms the sleeping owl,<br \/>\npecks the hawk until it leaves.<br \/>\nOn winter nights, the crow<br \/>\nsleeps in the pines.<\/p>\n<p>Driving 55, I saw it picking<br \/>\nat the squirrel&#8217;s crushed body.<br \/>\nCrows wait until the last minute<br \/>\nbefore flying up. But this one defied<br \/>\ndeath too long. I closed my eyes, it hit<br \/>\nthe side of the car. In the rear view mirror,<br \/>\nI saw its wing in the ditch. Tonight,<\/p>\n<p>the cycle will begin again, the possum<br \/>\nscavenging the crow&#8217;s cold body.<\/p>\n<p>Third Wednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EVOLUTION The squirrel&#8217;s brain, small as a walnut. It must learn to measure the distance from limb to bird feeder, to steal seed. After acorns fall, it hides them under oak leaves, in a bird house. The crow gathers bright objects, even quarters, to adorn its nest. It swarms the sleeping owl, pecks the hawk&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/evolution\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVOLUTION<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","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\/80","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}