{"id":859,"date":"2010-08-03T11:34:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T23:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=859"},"modified":"2010-08-03T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T23:35:08","slug":"tuesday-poem-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/08\/03\/tuesday-poem-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem: &#8220;North&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>North<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>homes<br \/>\nwhite timbered in the south<br \/>\ngive way to brown-red<br \/>\nin mid and north \u2013<br \/>\navenues of birch trees<br \/>\nserried lakes<\/p>\n<p>an elk<br \/>\nruns through deep winter<br \/>\nthe night train flares<br \/>\nthrough cuttings \u2013<br \/>\ninferno cast across jagged firs<br \/>\nfrozen earth<\/p>\n<p>rushes headlong<br \/>\ninto spring \u2013 a pied crow<br \/>\nsolitary<br \/>\nabove a grey field<\/p>\n<p>(c) Helen Lowe<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Published in Bravado 14<\/p>\n<p>On July 19 I posted on my blog about <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/07\/19\/influences-on-story-2\/\"><strong>Influences on Story<\/strong><\/a> and talked about two journeys into winter country during the time I lived in Sweden.\u00a0 This poem arises out of one of those two journeys, made by train into the far north of Sweden which still lay gripped in the very heart of winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North homes white timbered in the south give way to brown-red in mid and north \u2013 avenues of birch trees serried lakes an elk runs through deep winter the night train flares through cuttings \u2013 inferno cast across jagged firs frozen earth rushes headlong into spring \u2013 a pied crow solitary above a grey field [&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-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","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=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}