{"id":2579,"date":"2013-04-29T16:06:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T00:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2013-04-29T16:06:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T00:06:30","slug":"bird-house-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=2579","title":{"rendered":"BIRD WATCHERS . . . a poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"height: 1.4em; visibility: hidden;\">1<\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/534895_10151883171360035_1837165420_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2584\" title=\"534895_10151883171360035_1837165420_n\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/534895_10151883171360035_1837165420_n-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 1.4em; visibility: hidden;\">1<\/div>\n<p><strong>BIRD WATCHERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Binoculars resting on the sill<br \/>\nBlackly inveigle us to look.<br \/>\nThe luxury of observation<br \/>\nRackety silk.<br \/>\nCotton sheets abuzz,<br \/>\nI sleep with a mad bomber<br \/>\nIn a bed too narrow<br \/>\nTo contain explosives,<br \/>\nEroding acres encroaching<br \/>\nShores of receding flesh.<br \/>\nGrip off, I watch<\/p>\n<p>Elfin hummers amok,<br \/>\nFlap-happy Mallards<br \/>\nSwarm a blustery afternoon,<br \/>\nRecall bionic gunrunners, East Van,<br \/>\nFirst day back from gangster land.<br \/>\nRecoiling at the forecast I fled,<br \/>\nCramped in a compact car<br \/>\nChild piloting the wife. Blindfolded<br \/>\nAgainst your scrutiny, foiling<br \/>\nImplicit shame, I skirted<br \/>\nRoadblocks, sculpting my spine<br \/>\nStraight, forcing it<\/p>\n<p>To withstand gales. Tolls.<br \/>\nLousy steward, I drop<br \/>\nThe argillite raven,<br \/>\nGleaming abalone eyes divided.<br \/>\nI slap my back with hot plasters<br \/>\nSo it may bend when necessary.<br \/>\nFit inside. Repair.<br \/>\nWhen will listening<br \/>\nReveal the shape? Scope. When<br \/>\nWill seeing decode the trick?<\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 1.4em; visibility: hidden;\">1<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 1 BIRD WATCHERS Binoculars resting on the sill Blackly inveigle us to look. The luxury of observation Rackety silk. Cotton sheets abuzz, I sleep with a mad bomber In a bed too narrow To contain explosives, Eroding acres encroaching Shores of receding flesh. Grip off, I watch Elfin hummers amok, Flap-happy Mallards Swarm a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}