{"id":2918,"date":"2016-02-11T02:55:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T02:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2918"},"modified":"2021-10-09T02:17:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T02:17:00","slug":"the-path-in-autumn-by-tom-sexton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/the-path-in-autumn-by-tom-sexton\/","title":{"rendered":"The Path in Autumn by Tom Sexton"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3844 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Path-in-Autumn-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Path-in-Autumn-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Path-in-Autumn-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Path-in-Autumn-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Path-in-Autumn-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Path-in-Autumn.png 1600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/576;\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Path in Autumn<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Tom Sexton<\/p>\n<p>From the narrow path I&#8217;m on<br \/>\nI can see fall&#8217;s first snow on the mountains.<br \/>\nBelow the snow, the tundra seems to<br \/>\nbe wine spilled by the moon last night<br \/>\nwhen it began to wane. My step is light.<br \/>\nThe leaves on the path are golden.<br \/>\nIn the alders, a thrush.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m in no hurry to get where I&#8217;m going.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Tom Sexton is a former Alaska Poet Laureate. His latest collection is <em>A Ladder of Cranes<\/em>, University of Alaska press, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Sexton is a former Alaska Poet Laureate. His latest collection is A Ladder of Cranes, University of Alaska press, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3844,"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":[319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moon-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918","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=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}