{"id":1097,"date":"2011-12-08T01:30:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T01:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2017-07-11T21:28:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T21:28:24","slug":"poem-found-in-a-wood-by-ian-dudley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/poem-found-in-a-wood-by-ian-dudley\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem Found in a Wood by Ian Dudley"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/woods.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1098 lazyload\" title=\"woods\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/woods-218x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/woods-218x300.png 218w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/woods.png 445w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 218px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 218\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Poem Found in a Wood<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Ian Dudley<\/p>\n<p>the low sun turns puddles<br \/>\ninto sheets of sky indigo<br \/>\nwhere the moon gathers its white<br \/>\nand the custard and blood leaves<br \/>\nof a cherry tree dying<br \/>\nremember light<\/p>\n<p>a pheasant puts its sore throat<br \/>\nto a trumpet a white-tipped propeller<br \/>\nwhirls into the trees<br \/>\ncachinnating like a magpie<br \/>\nthe wood fills up with roosting<br \/>\na path polka-ed<\/p>\n<p>with gold leaf<br \/>\nand blackened pennies<br \/>\nleads me to a mother with two kids<br \/>\nwhy do we have to go into the woods<br \/>\nthe boy says I don&#8217;t hear the reply<br \/>\nbecause someone<\/p>\n<p>is following me<br \/>\nthe moon hardens into a netsuke<br \/>\nmy dog races between the trees<br \/>\ntrapped in a zoetrope<br \/>\nI forgot my notebook<br \/>\nand have to write on my skin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poem Found in a Wood by Ian Dudley the low sun turns puddles into sheets of sky indigo where the moon gathers its white and the custard and blood leaves of a cherry tree dying remember light a pheasant puts its sore throat to a trumpet a white-tipped propeller whirls into the trees cachinnating like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,319,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-123","category-moon-poem","category-nature-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}