{"id":24842,"date":"2014-04-01T06:30:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T17:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=24842"},"modified":"2014-03-25T07:57:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T18:57:19","slug":"tuesday-poem-state-highway-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/04\/01\/tuesday-poem-state-highway-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem: “State Highway 1”"},"content":{"rendered":"

State Highway 1 stretching south —
\nChristchurch
\nslipping from my shoulders<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Helen Lowe<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

Toward the end of last year I spent upward of 5 weeks in a remote coastal location, working on my current book. I also wrote a number of haiku during that time, which I have been featuring as Tuesday Poems. Last week I told you the featured haiku was the last in the series, but in fact that wasn’t quite right — although it takes the final place in the current sequence, this one was actually the first written.<\/p>\n

I hesitated to include it, because it involves a metaphor and therefore technically cannot be a haiku—but I thought I would include it anyways and you may take it as a very short poem following the form of a contemporary haiku. And “probably” a confessional one and therefore “not art.” \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

The reason I want to include it regardless, is becasue I wonder how many others ‘oot thar’, feel like that about Christchurch in these post-earthquake days. I know for me, it really did feel like a weight falling away that day.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>To read the featured poem on the Tuesday Poem Hub<\/strong> and other great poems from fellow Tuesday poets from around the world, click here<\/strong> <\/a>or on the Quill<\/strong> icon <\/strong>in the sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

State Highway 1 stretching south — Christchurch slipping from my shoulders \u00a9 Helen Lowe \u2014 Toward the end of last year I spent upward of 5 weeks in a remote coastal location, working on my current book. I also wrote a number of haiku during that time, which I have been featuring as Tuesday Poems. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakepoems","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24842","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=24842"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24850,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24842\/revisions\/24850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}