{"id":2212,"date":"2014-04-14T02:20:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T02:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2017-07-12T00:48:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T00:48:46","slug":"stillness-by-ion-corcos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/stillness-by-ion-corcos\/","title":{"rendered":"Stillness by Ion Corcos"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ic.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2213 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ic.jpg\" alt=\"ic\" width=\"309\" height=\"348\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ic.jpg 789w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ic-266x300.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ic-624x701.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 309px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 309\/348;\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Stillness<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Ion Corcos<\/p>\n<p>Offerings remain<br \/>\nsprawled on the road,<br \/>\nwhite rice to appease<\/p>\n<p>the gods, soiled black<br \/>\nwith dirt and exhaust<br \/>\nfumes from rumbling<\/p>\n<p>mopeds, cars, trucks,<br \/>\nshoe-prints indented<br \/>\non white and grey<\/p>\n<p>a remnant of ash<br \/>\nfrom an incense stick<br \/>\nplaced by pious hands<\/p>\n<p>a frangipani<\/p>\n<p>small petals uncurled<br \/>\nits centre yellow<br \/>\nthe residue of the sun.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Ion Corcos has been published in Lake City Lights and The Greensilk Journal, and upcoming in Message in a Bottle. Ion loves travelling<br \/>\nand has recently spent many months in Greece and Turkey. He lives with his partner, Lisa, in a small villa by the sea at Sapphire Beach.<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.ioncorcos.wordpress.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Offerings remain<br \/>\nsprawled on the road,<br \/>\nwhite rice to appease<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2216,"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":[430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-urban-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","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=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}