{"id":3547,"date":"2014-12-22T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=3547"},"modified":"2014-12-22T08:20:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T08:20:00","slug":"evocative-verse-from-sarah-lane-twelve-blogs-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=3547","title":{"rendered":"Evocative verse from Sarah Lane-Twelve Blogs of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sarah<\/a><\/p>\n

Sarah Lane is the Canadian author of The God of My Art<\/em><\/a>, a quarter finalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and available on Amazon<\/a> and Chapters<\/a>. The God of My Art <\/em>is the coming-of-age story of a young artist set in Vancouver and an imaginary town in northern BC. Lane’s other fiction and poetry have appeared in The Antigonish Review<\/em>, Roar Magazine<\/em>, and Quills: Canadian Poetry<\/em> Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Lane is currently writing a psychological thriller about a salsa dancer and her doppelg\u00e4nger. To be the first to know when it comes out, sign up to her new release mailing list<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To learn more about Lane\u2019s writing, visit www.sarahlanebooks.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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The leaves are falling, clumping on pavement, wet and mute<\/p>\n

like the beat of lips, fluttering with a whisper in the rainstorm<\/p>\n

black like mascara streaming down a throat, waft of a secret<\/p>\n

curling under earlobes to the small of a neck, drizzling into the<\/p>\n

chaos of hair and drift of fingers down the meridian of spine<\/p>\n

II.<\/p>\n

When we close our eyes we forget our continents, yellow<\/p>\n

silk of the setting sun, sheen of snow under moonlight, the sweet<\/p>\n

spice of a foreign accent, damp warmth of a strange tongue pooling its<\/p>\n

syllables behind our lips, this contrast of skin where we sit, side by side,<\/p>\n

legs swinging off the bed in the hush of the morning light<\/p>\n

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Read the rest of the poem:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.sarahlanebooks.com\/blog-ninth-of-christmas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarah Lane is the Canadian author of The God of My Art, a quarter finalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and available on Amazon and Chapters. The God of My Art is the coming-of-age story of a young artist set in Vancouver and an imaginary town in northern BC. Lane’s other fiction and poetry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[396,397],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3547"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3555,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions\/3555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}