{"id":2203,"date":"2014-04-02T01:02:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T01:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2017-07-11T21:21:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T21:21:26","slug":"at-midnight-by-emily-strauss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/at-midnight-by-emily-strauss\/","title":{"rendered":"At Midnight by Emily Strauss"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At Midnight<\/h1>\n

by Emily Strauss<\/p>\n

At midnight the sky cleared
\nin pure silence, not a blade
\nof grass rustled, I arose
\nto note the pale cliffs faded
\nby the nearly full moon
\nits white light glowing
\noff the cholla, making them
\nsparkle in their spiny arms\u2014
\nI slept again\u2014
\nin the morning thick bands
\nof clouds returned blowing
\nfast aloft, the sun rose trying
\nto shine between the layers,
\ncold yellow showing among
\nthe grays, the water frozen
\nin the spigot, the coyote
\ntrotted back through camp
\nblack-chinned sparrows
\nclung to the yucca spines.<\/p>\n

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Emily Strauss has an M.A. in English, but is self-taught in poetry. Over 160 of her poems appear in dozens of online venues and in anthologies. The natural world is generally her framework; she often focuses on the tension between nature and humanity, using concrete images to illuminate the loss of meaning between them. She is a semi-retired teacher living in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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