{"id":237,"date":"2020-11-18T01:14:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-1\/?page_id=237"},"modified":"2020-11-20T01:11:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T01:11:34","slug":"the-bird","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/the-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Bird<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You flew away\u00a0<br>in a hurry, leaving\u00a0<br>behind memories planted\u00a0<br>at the witching hour.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A night after you left,\u00a0<br>I ensconced in the heaven\u00a0<br>forged by bar noise\u00a0<br>and returned with energy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The room\u2019s walls were busy,\u00a0<br>a stack of shadows blurring\u00a0<br>out on weak polarized light.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My lips were untidy in walks\u00a0<br>round the corners of the house.\u00a0<br>I peered down\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the room\u00a0<br>where you should be, I erred\u00a0<br>steps down a lone door wishing\u00a0\u00a0<br>to find a pet bird.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was blazing hot, more shadows\u00a0<br>filmed and faded on a sleeping light.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I sat on the floor as noise\u00a0\u00a0<br>from broken mirror mashed\u00a0\u00a0<br>the\u00a0rattle of a leaving\u00a0\u00a0<br>automobile.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A crescent moon beamed\u00a0<br>and slipped on a loan spell\u00a0<br>behind a patch of grey\u00a0cloud;\u00a0<br>I had\u00a0never wanted this,\u00a0<br>my chest grew with activity.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I gazed at the mumbling cloud,\u00a0<br>a brief loss of the first light,\u00a0<br>a latent loss of transient energy.\u00a0<br>I tried to put parts in place but\u00a0<br>couldn\u2019t find the moon.\u00a0<br>I peered back\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">to the lone door,\u00a0<br>silence hummed like the sound\u00a0<br>of color leaving\u00a0\u00a0<br>the leaves of plants in December.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nThe Bird&nbsp; You flew away\u00a0in a hurry, leaving\u00a0behind memories planted\u00a0at the witching hour.\u00a0 A night after you left,\u00a0I ensconced in the heaven\u00a0forged by bar noise\u00a0and returned with energy.\u00a0 The room\u2019s walls were busy,\u00a0a stack of shadows blurring\u00a0out on weak polarized&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/the-bird\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The Bird&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/no-intro.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-237","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237\/revisions\/368"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}