{"id":2224,"date":"2014-04-28T01:12:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T01:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2017-07-12T01:51:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T01:51:54","slug":"fridays-by-bruce-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/fridays-by-bruce-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Fridays by Bruce Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2227 aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Bruce-Taylor.jpg\" alt=\"Bruce Taylor\" width=\"752\" height=\"404\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Bruce-Taylor.jpg 1670w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Bruce-Taylor-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Bruce-Taylor-1024x550.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Bruce-Taylor-624x335.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 752px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 752\/404;\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Fridays<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Bruce Taylor<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, they\u2019re too used to it all<br \/>\nto weep anymore in a parking lot<br \/>\nat such a normal thing as parting,<br \/>\nbirds coming or going, all the trees<br \/>\nputting off or on their leaves.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s the usual weekend errands,<br \/>\nhe gets kitty litter and light bulbs,<br \/>\nshe salmon and trash\u2011bags. What they are<br \/>\nexpected to bring home and what they do.<br \/>\nThen there&#8217;s the left turn and the right,<br \/>\nthe predictable nature of the antipodal,<br \/>\nwhile the lights in every direction,<br \/>\nat every intersection blink their easy advice\u2014<br \/>\nto stop or go or to proceed with caution.<\/p>\n<p>###<br \/>\nBruce is the author of eight collections of poetry, including The Longest You&#8217;ve Lived Anywhere: New &amp; Selected Poems 2013 and editor of eight anthologies including Wisconsin Poetry (Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts &amp; Letters), and with Patti See, Higher Learning, (Prentice Hall 3rd ed.) 2011.<\/p>\n<p>His poetry and translations have appeared in such places as Able Muse, The Chicago Review, The Columbia Review, The Cortland Review , The Formalist, Literary Salt, Light, The Nation, The New York Quarterly, The Northwest Review, Poetry, Rattle, Rosebud, Slow Trains, Verse Wisconsin, Your Daily Poem and on Writer&#8217;s Almanac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce is the author of eight collections of poetry, including The Longest You&#8217;ve Lived Anywhere: New &#038; Selected Poems 2013 and editor of eight anthologies including Wisconsin &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2227,"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":[431],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-friends-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","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=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}