{"id":4935,"date":"2022-03-01T12:27:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T17:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=4935"},"modified":"2022-03-01T12:28:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T17:28:42","slug":"something-wonder-in-one-poem-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/something-wonder-in-one-poem-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Wonderful in One Poem Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to John Murphy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelakepoetry.co.uk\/\">The Lake (UK)<\/a> for including <i>Something Wonderful<\/i> represented by Moving From House to House in this month\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelakepoetry.co.uk\/reviews\/oprmarch22\/\">One Poem Review:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMoving from House to House<\/p>\n<p>We live in a sacramental universe;<br \/>\nEvery small act becomes an act to redeem us:<br \/>\nA brocaded coat repaired and handed down,<br \/>\nA kind of ancient music teasing the attic air,<br \/>\nThe bats ganging up between screen and eave.<br \/>\nSacraments hold us up when we fall down.<br \/>\nNo longer dead rites, but buoyant, ebullient<br \/>\nAs the dust of past lives settles after crossing<br \/>\nThin bars of light. Light taunts the bats. It flies from<br \/>\nWhat\u2019s left of beads and silver woven into the coat.<br \/>\nBut the music is something misremembered<br \/>\nLike postmen and doctors knocking at the front door,<br \/>\nOr the cool, but kind, last look from a head nurse,<br \/>\nOr the dark moon that calls \u201cblack wings, black wings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to John Murphy of The Lake (UK) for including Something Wonderful represented by Moving From House to House in this month\u2019s One Poem Review: Moving from House to House We live in a sacramental universe; Every small act becomes an act to redeem us: A brocaded coat repaired and handed down, A kind of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4938,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions\/4938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}