{"id":21645,"date":"2016-04-18T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachelswirsky.com\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2016-04-18T07:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T14:00:02","slug":"poem-a-season-with-the-geese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=21645","title":{"rendered":"Poem: A Season with the Geese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This poem originally appeared in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abyssapexzine.com\/\">Abyss &amp; Apex Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A\u00a0Season\u00a0with the\u00a0Geese<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Rachel Swirsky<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Once when we<br \/>\nwere young, we flew<br \/>\nto Europe with the\u00a0geese.<br \/>\nTwined neck to neck<br \/>\nwe sailed the Seine<br \/>\nchasing ripples and water bugs,<br \/>\nlost ourselves in Madrid<br \/>\nwhen sudden snow<br \/>\nveiled us, white on white,<br \/>\nnested in crumbling ramparts<br \/>\noverlooking Rome until<br \/>\nblossoms cracked<br \/>\nthe frozen meadows,<br \/>\nreviving spring.<\/p>\n<p>Our\u00a0season\u00a0ended<br \/>\nwe flew home<br \/>\nclipped our wings<br \/>\ndevoted ourselves<br \/>\nto grounded lives.<br \/>\nNow I watch<br \/>\nmy window as\u00a0geese<br \/>\nfeather the moon<br \/>\nand long for<br \/>\none more flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poem originally appeared in Abyss &amp; Apex Magazine. &nbsp; A&nbsp;Season&nbsp;with the&nbsp;Geese by Rachel Swirsky Once when we were young, we flew to Europe with the&nbsp;geese. Twined neck to neck we sailed the Seine chasing ripples and water bugs, lost &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rachelswirsky.com\/2016\/04\/poem-a-season-with-the-geese\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=21645\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-publications","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21646,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21645\/revisions\/21646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}