{"id":9388,"date":"2011-11-01T06:30:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T17:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=9388"},"modified":"2011-10-31T21:11:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T08:11:44","slug":"tuesday-poem-backwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/11\/01\/tuesday-poem-backwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem: &#8220;backwards&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>backwards<\/h3>\n<p>tomorrow<br \/>\nI will throw burned toast<br \/>\nto birds that flutter down<br \/>\nfrom the dying tree<br \/>\nin one corner<br \/>\nof the yard<\/p>\n<p>blackbird<br \/>\nflying backwards<br \/>\nas I step widdershins<br \/>\naround the old house<br \/>\nwith its sagging porch<br \/>\n&amp; broke-back roof<\/p>\n<p>shade my eyes<br \/>\ntoward the smudge<br \/>\nof hills\u2014storm brewing<br \/>\nalong the tops<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Helen Lowe<\/p>\n<p>First published in<strong> Takahe 68<\/strong>, December 2009<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-7519\" href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/08\/30\/tuesday-poem-enchantress-of-numbers-by-helen-rickerby\/tuespoem\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7519\" title=\"TuesPoem\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TuesPoem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"107\" \/><\/a>To read the featured poem on the <strong>Tuesday Poem Hub<\/strong> and other great poems from fellow Tuesday poets around the world, click <a href=\"http:\/\/tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> or on the <strong>Quill<\/strong> <strong>icon<\/strong> in the sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>backwards tomorrow I will throw burned toast to birds that flutter down from the dying tree in one corner of the yard blackbird flying backwards as I step widdershins around the old house with its sagging porch &amp; broke-back roof shade my eyes toward the smudge of hills\u2014storm brewing along the tops \u00a9 Helen Lowe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9388","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=9388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9392,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9388\/revisions\/9392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}