{"id":3485,"date":"2017-08-13T19:37:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T19:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2017-08-13T19:37:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T19:37:07","slug":"bird-flew-screen-door-begged-end-life-ralph-bousquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/bird-flew-screen-door-begged-end-life-ralph-bousquet\/","title":{"rendered":"to the bird who flew into my screen door and begged me to end its life by\u00a0Ralph Bousquet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3487 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/to-the-bird-who-flew-into-my-screen-door-and-begged-me-to-end-its-life.jpg\" alt=\"to the bird who flew into my screen door and begged me to end its life\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/to-the-bird-who-flew-into-my-screen-door-and-begged-me-to-end-its-life.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/to-the-bird-who-flew-into-my-screen-door-and-begged-me-to-end-its-life-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/to-the-bird-who-flew-into-my-screen-door-and-begged-me-to-end-its-life-768x644.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 940px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 940\/788;\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>to the bird who flew into my screen door and begged me to end its life,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by\u00a0Ralph Bousquet<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>my wicked glass<\/p>\n<p>broke your fall &amp;<\/p>\n<p>your welcome,<\/p>\n<p>&amp; you\u2019re welcome, &amp;<\/p>\n<p>your neckbone,<\/p>\n<p>white &amp; wet against your<\/p>\n<p>blue &amp; black feathers, &amp;<\/p>\n<p>i\u2019m sorry, &amp;<\/p>\n<p>your eyes fixed in fury<\/p>\n<p>on me\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0asking<\/p>\n<p><em>you got what it takes? <\/em>&amp;,<\/p>\n<p>forgive me, but<\/p>\n<p>###<br \/>\nRalph Bousquet is a poet and musician from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. His poems have been published in <i>Ponder Review<\/i> and <i>The Reader<\/i>. He attends New York University and lives in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Bousquet is a poet and musician from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. His poems have been published in Ponder Review and The Reader. He attends New York University and lives in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485","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=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}