What Winter Taught Me<\/p>\n
Winter Taught Me Well<\/p>\n
The raindrops that wrestle my soul free from the cracks<\/p>\n
That make me shiver<\/p>\n
That make me run into the wind<\/p>\n
Directionless<\/p>\n
That plant in me the will to abandon<\/p>\n
The folly<\/p>\n
If only to abandon the pain<\/p>\n
But<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not enough for me to stop moving<\/p>\n
Not enough to keep me here<\/p>\n
Raindrops<\/p>\n
That paint the hunger in the silence<\/p>\n
Like the sounds of passing cars and chatter just out of earshot<\/p>\n
Of flickering neon and streetlight incandescence Cadences swimming along in the light<\/p>\n
Illuminating the alleyway beyond that theater that you can only associate warm memories with<\/p>\n
This is your home<\/p>\n
Where the grass lives to kiss your ankles<\/p>\n
The wind billows to deliver you to the warm arms that await you<\/p>\n
Somewhere<\/p>\n
Life finicky, yet cheerful to receive you<\/p>\n
But you can\u2019t feel it now<\/p>\n
Only the rain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
James Friedman What Winter Taught Me Winter Taught Me Well The raindrops that wrestle my soul free from the cracks That make me shiver That make me run into the wind Directionless That plant in me the will to abandon The folly If only to abandon the pain But It\u2019s not enough for me to stop moving Not enough to keep me here Raindrops That paint the hunger in the silence Like the sounds of passing cars and chatter just out of earshot Of flickering neon and streetlight incandescence Cadences swimming along in the light Illuminating the alleyway beyond that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-492","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/492\/revisions\/494"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}