{"id":83,"date":"2018-11-16T18:35:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=83"},"modified":"2018-11-16T18:35:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:35:38","slug":"fracture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/fracture\/","title":{"rendered":"FRACTURE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FRACTURE<\/strong><br \/>\nThe last flake falls<br \/>\nsnow crystals become ice.<br \/>\nShe walks to the mailbox.<br \/>\nA stumble, twist &#8212; avalanche <\/p>\n<p>of soft bone slips, her fall gathers<br \/>\nspeed, takes her down.<br \/>\nShe crawls up the steps, rests<br \/>\non the kitchen floor.<\/p>\n<p>Blue sky becomes<br \/>\nhospital-white.<br \/>\nLike the greening of a scarred<br \/>\nhillside, callus formation<br \/>\nfills the nailed gap.<\/p>\n<p>She shoves the walker<br \/>\nforward, the distance<br \/>\nfrom bed to hall<br \/>\na bouldered slope. <\/p>\n<p>Twice a day, she maneuvers the walker<br \/>\naround imaginary rocks, climbing stairs<br \/>\nto an imaginary peak.<\/p>\n<p>Now she&#8217;s home. Sits to brush<br \/>\nher teeth, spits in that little pan<br \/>\nfrom the hospital. <\/p>\n<p>And Dad. He can barely walk 10 feet,<br \/>\nsits to fry an egg, wash the dishes.<br \/>\nHe hasn&#8217;t thought about how Mom<br \/>\nwill get in the tub with a casted leg,<br \/>\nwipe after using the toilet.<\/p>\n<p>Hasn&#8217;t thought<br \/>\nhow they will out run<br \/>\nthis avalanche.<\/p>\n<p>riverSedge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRACTURE The last flake falls snow crystals become ice. She walks to the mailbox. A stumble, twist &#8212; avalanche of soft bone slips, her fall gathers speed, takes her down. She crawls up the steps, rests on the kitchen floor. Blue sky becomes hospital-white. Like the greening of a scarred hillside, callus formation fills the&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/fracture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FRACTURE<\/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-83","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\/83","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=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}