{"id":2242,"date":"2014-05-16T02:36:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T02:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2017-07-12T01:50:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T01:50:11","slug":"along-the-dock-by-bz-niditch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/along-the-dock-by-bz-niditch\/","title":{"rendered":"Along the Dock by BZ Niditch"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2243 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bzpic.jpg\" alt=\"bzpic\" width=\"227\" height=\"289\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bzpic.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bzpic-624x798.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 227px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 227\/289;\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Along the Dock<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by BZ Niditch<\/p>\n<p>I have lost<br \/>\nour reciprocal letters<br \/>\nof my childhood friend<br \/>\nwhen he suddenly<br \/>\npassed out of my life<br \/>\noutside the sea home<br \/>\nnow harboring pebbles<br \/>\nto throw back<br \/>\nin the ocean&#8217;s wave<br \/>\nwhen we built<br \/>\nthe orange kayak<br \/>\nreflecting as the sun<br \/>\ngleams on a torn<br \/>\nblue envelope.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>B.Z. NIDITCH is a poet, playwright, fiction writer and teacher.<br \/>\nHis work is widely published in journals and magazines throughout the world, including:<em> Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Art<\/em>;\u00a0<em>The Literary Review<\/em>;\u00a0<em>Denver Quarterly<\/em>;\u00a0<em>Hawaii Review<\/em>;\u00a0<em>Le Guepard\u00a0<\/em>(France);\u00a0<em>Kadmos\u00a0<\/em>(France);\u00a0<em>Prism\u00a0International<\/em>;\u00a0<em>Jejune\u00a0<\/em>(Czech Republic);\u00a0<em>Leopold Bloom<\/em>\u00a0(Budapest); \u00a0<em>Antioch Review<\/em>; and\u00a0<em>Prairie Schooner<\/em>, among others.<br \/>\nHe lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Z. NIDITCH is a poet, playwright, fiction writer and teacher.<br \/>\nHis work is widely published in journals and magazines throughout the world, including: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2247,"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":[408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242","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=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}