{"id":3815,"date":"2020-10-20T00:13:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T00:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=3815"},"modified":"2020-10-20T00:13:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T00:13:57","slug":"seekers-by-christopher-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/seekers-by-christopher-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Seekers by Christopher Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 <\/p>\n

Seekers<\/h2>\n

by Christopher Woods<\/p>\n

In the bus station
\nI was near enough
\nTo be master of ceremonies,
\nSeeing them on their way.
\nBut I had no idea,
\nLet alone imagination,
\nFor what rolled toward me
\nOn the dolly.
\nAn ice chest, and I thought
\nIt odd that someone would send
\nSuch a thing on a bus,
\nNear midnight, from Houston
\nOr anywhere at all.
\nThen I read the label –
\nFRAGILE – HUMAN EYES FOR TRANSPLANT.<\/p>\n

Later, on the bus
\nRolling down the highway,
\nI couldn\u2019t sleep.
\nI thought of them down below,
\nWedged between boxes and suitcases,
\nJostled on bumps and curves.
\nHow they had no brain
\nTo let them know a thing,
\nWhere they were going
\nOr why.
\nI thought of my own life,
\nIn transit once again.
\nMy brain couldn\u2019t tell me
\nWhat was ahead either,
\nOnly that I was on my way.<\/p>\n

I got off in the Rio Grande Valley,
\nWhile they continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the bus station
\nI was near enough
\nTo be master of ceremonies,
\nSeeing them on their way.<\/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":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815","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=3815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}