{"id":1208,"date":"2010-09-07T08:30:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T20:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2010-09-06T20:58:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T08:58:18","slug":"tuesday-poem-outback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/09\/07\/tuesday-poem-outback\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem: &#8220;Outback&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Outback<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>red dirt drifts<br \/>\nalong narrow tyre<br \/>\ntracks<\/p>\n<p>heat shimmers<br \/>\nagainst bleached<br \/>\nsky<\/p>\n<p>a homestead settles<br \/>\ninto earth, its last<br \/>\nneighbour<\/p>\n<p>a solitary chimney<br \/>\n\u2013 the car slows,<br \/>\nstops<\/p>\n<p>ochre dust<br \/>\nfilters through air<br \/>\nconditioning<\/p>\n<p>coats everything:<br \/>\nclothes, shoes,<br \/>\nskin<\/p>\n<p>the screen door sags<br \/>\non its hinges, <em>hello<\/em><br \/>\nechoes<\/p>\n<p>through empty rooms<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>(c) Helen Lowe 2008<\/p>\n<p>Published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetrynz.net\/\"><strong>Poetry NZ<\/strong><\/a> (September 2008)<\/p>\n<p>Having been in Australia for the past week&#8212;albeit very much on the coast, here in Melbourne&#8212;I thought the Tuesday poem should address an Australian theme.<\/p>\n<p>To see the featured poem on the <strong>Tuesday Poem Blog<\/strong>\u2014and link to other Tuesday Poets posting around NZ and the world\u2014either click <a href=\"http:\/\/tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com\/\">here <\/a>or on the Quill icon in the sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outback red dirt drifts along narrow tyre tracks heat shimmers against bleached sky a homestead settles into earth, its last neighbour a solitary chimney \u2013 the car slows, stops ochre dust filters through air conditioning coats everything: clothes, shoes, skin the screen door sags on its hinges, hello echoes through empty rooms &#8212; (c) Helen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}