{"id":1259,"date":"2012-05-17T22:54:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T22:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2017-07-12T01:19:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T01:19:14","slug":"lunch-break-kansas-by-devin-harrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/lunch-break-kansas-by-devin-harrison\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch Break, Kansas by Devin Harrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/church.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1204 lazyload\" title=\"church\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/church.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"195\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 360px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 360\/195;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Lunch Break, Kansas<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Devin Harrison<\/p>\n<p>The children dip midday under broad-armed elms<br \/>\nby the edge of the lake cup their hands in water<br \/>\nsend schools of marbled green glass minnows<br \/>\nshuttering through the shallows<\/p>\n<p>we have just come off an endless summer road,<br \/>\nstopped for play after miles of wheat and Milo<br \/>\nand dust billows from the siege of tractors<br \/>\nchugging fall planting furrows across the dry plains.<\/p>\n<p>I join them squeeze through bottom silt with them,<br \/>\npeek under lime-colored algae bend together in depths<br \/>\nwhich sucks all that is living down into it up I feel<br \/>\nthe urgent sun soften feel my skin swallow then close<\/p>\n<p>it seldom happens a respite like this pulled from time<br \/>\nthe children recognize this rake their fingers purposefully<br \/>\nthrough the slowly eddying afternoon drag for tadpoles<br \/>\nnewt eggs ideas filled with unfathomable possibilities<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Devin Harrison has published poetry in numerous periodicals throughout the US and Canada. These magazines include: Contemporary Verse Two, Grain, Event, The Amethyst Review, Kansas Quarterly, South Dakota Review, Passages North, and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lunch Break, Kansas by Devin Harrison The children dip midday under broad-armed elms by the edge of the lake cup their hands in water send schools of marbled green glass minnows shuttering through the shallows we have just come off an endless summer road, stopped for play after miles of wheat and Milo and dust&#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":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","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=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}