{"id":21,"date":"2020-08-20T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/20\/a-poem-for-thursday-94\/"},"modified":"2020-10-26T20:32:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T20:32:29","slug":"a-poem-for-thursday-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/20\/a-poem-for-thursday-94\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem for a Thursday #94"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Photo by\u00a0<\/span>Waldemar Brandt<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<\/span>Unsplash<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, essayist, and inventor. That last one surprised me. She invented the LongPen device which makes it possible to remotely write using a tablet and a robotic arm. The list of her books is impressive. The Handmaid’s Tale <\/i>is probably the one most people are familiar with especially since it has been adapted for television. I haven’t read much of her poetry but I like this.<\/p>\n

This is the plum season, the nights<\/i>
\nblue and distended, the moon<\/i>
\nhazed, this is the season of peaches<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i>
\nwith their lush lobed bulbs<\/i>
\nthat glow in the dusk, apples<\/i>
\nthat drop and rot<\/i>
\nsweetly, their brown skins veined as glands<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i>
\nNo more the shrill voices that cried Need Need<\/i>
\nfrom the cold pond, bladed\u00a0<\/i>
\nand urgent as new grass<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i>
\nNow it is the crickets\u00a0<\/i>
\nthat say Ripe Ripe<\/i>
\nslurred in the darkness, while the plums<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i>
\ndripping on the lawn outside\u00a0<\/i>
\nour window, bursts<\/i>
\nwith a sound like thick syrup<\/i>
\nmuffled and slow<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i>
\nThe air is still<\/i>
\nwarm, flesh moves over\u00a0<\/i>
\nflesh, there is no<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i>
\nhurry<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i>
\nLate August<\/i>
\nMargaret Atwood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo by\u00a0Waldemar Brandt\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, essayist, and inventor. That last one surprised me. She invented the LongPen device which makes it possible to remotely write using a tablet and a robotic arm. The list of her books is impressive. The Handmaid’s Tale is probably the one most people are familiar with especially since it has been adapted for television. I haven’t read much of her poetry but I like this. This is the plum season, the nights blue and distended, the moon hazed, this is the season of peaches with their lush lobed bulbs that glow in the dusk, apples that drop and rot sweetly, their brown skins veined as glands No more the shrill voices that cried Need Need from the cold pond, bladed\u00a0 and urgent as new grass Now it is the crickets\u00a0 that say Ripe Ripe slurred in the darkness, while the plums dripping on the lawn outside\u00a0 our window, bursts with a sound like thick syrup muffled and slow The air is still warm, flesh moves over\u00a0 flesh, there is no hurry Late August Margaret Atwood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem-for-a-thursday"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2472,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/2472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}