{"id":3928,"date":"2011-03-01T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2011-02-28T22:02:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T09:02:07","slug":"tuesday-poem-storm-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/03\/01\/tuesday-poem-storm-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem: Storm Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Storm Front<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow<br \/>\nafter our war<br \/>\nclouds stream<br \/>\nout of the nor&#8217;east,<br \/>\nseagulls fleeing<br \/>\nbefore the wind\u2014<br \/>\na voice on the radio<br \/>\ntalks about what it means<br \/>\nto be . . . human, beating<br \/>\nagainst each other, asks<br \/>\nwho will pick up<br \/>\nall the shards, piece<br \/>\ntogether the joins, dark<br \/>\nfractures enclosing<br \/>\nthe whole.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Helen Lowe<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wrote this poem in 2009, but it seemed very apposite to the earthquake and its aftermath that we have been experiencing here in Christchurch over the past week&#8212;and because today is Tuesday, that means there must be a Tuesday Poem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>To enjoy more Tuesday Poems go to the <strong>Tuesday Poem Blog<\/strong> hub <a href=\"http:\/\/tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> or click on the Quill icon in the sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storm Front Tomorrow after our war clouds stream out of the nor&#8217;east, seagulls fleeing before the wind\u2014 a voice on the radio talks about what it means to be . . . human, beating against each other, asks who will pick up all the shards, piece together the joins, dark fractures enclosing the whole. \u00a9 [&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-3928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928","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=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3940,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions\/3940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}