{"id":1796,"date":"2009-09-18T00:24:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T06:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2009-09-19T11:52:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T17:52:43","slug":"1796","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1796","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Friday: Ex Libris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/dkelly\/image\/34999716\"><img src='http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/stream2.jpg' alt='\u201cFall Stream\u201d by dkelly - click for link.' title=\"\u201cFall Stream\u201d by dkelly - click for link.\" \/><\/a> Happy Fall, ya&#8217;ll. This is my very favorite time of year, and I just want to revel in it. So I&#8217;m not going to say much here, I&#8217;m just going to share a lovely little jewel of a poem with you that evokes the beauty of the season, with just a wee tinge of melancholy over the winter to come. It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/archive\/poem.html?id=171709\"><strong>&#8220;Ex Libris&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/archive\/poet.html?id=7474\"><strong>Eleanor Wilner<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By the stream, where the ground is soft<br \/>\nand gives, under the slightest pressure\u2014even<br \/>\nthe fly would leave its footprint here<br \/>\nand the paw of the shrew the crescent<br \/>\nof its claws like the strokes of a chisel<br \/>\nin clay; where the lightest chill, lighter<br \/>\nthan the least rumor of winter, sets the reeds<br \/>\nto a kind of speaking, and a single drop of rain<br \/>\nleaves a crater to catch the first silver<br \/>\nglint of sun when the clouds slide away<br \/>\nfrom each other like two tired lovers,<br \/>\nand the light returns, pale, though brightened<br \/>\nby the last chapter of late autumn:<br \/>\ncopper, rusted oak, gold aspen, and the red<br \/>\npages of maple&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/archive\/poem.html?id=171709\"><strong>Click here<\/strong><\/a> to read the rest. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Looking for more? <a href=\"http:\/\/blbooks.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>Becky&#8217;s Book Reviews<\/strong><\/a> is hosting this week&#8217;s Poetry Friday round-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Fall, ya&#8217;ll. This is my very favorite time of year, and I just want to revel in it. So I&#8217;m not going to say much here, I&#8217;m just going to share a lovely little jewel of a poem with you that evokes the beauty of the season, with just a wee tinge of melancholy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}