{"id":5892,"date":"2015-10-08T15:40:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T14:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=5892"},"modified":"2015-10-08T15:43:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T14:43:06","slug":"for-national-poetry-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=5892","title":{"rendered":"For National Poetry Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"poem-top\" class=\"tab-content active\">\n<div id=\"attachment_5893\" style=\"width: 456px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/spells.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5893\" class=\"wp-image-5893 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/spells.jpg\" alt=\"spells\" width=\"446\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/spells.jpg 446w, https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/spells-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spells by Sarachmet, 2009<\/p><\/div>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Her Kind &#8211; Anne Sexton<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I have gone out, a possessed witch,<br \/>\nhaunting the black air, braver at night;<br \/>\ndreaming evil, I have done my hitch<br \/>\nover the plain houses, light by light:<br \/>\nlonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind.<br \/>\nA woman like that is not a woman, quite.<br \/>\nI have been her kind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I have found the warm caves in the woods,<br \/>\nfilled them with skillets, carvings, shelves,<br \/>\nclosets, silks, innumerable goods;<br \/>\nfixed the suppers for the worms and the elves:<br \/>\nwhining, rearranging the disaligned.<br \/>\nA woman like that is misunderstood.<br \/>\nI have been her kind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I have ridden in your cart, driver,<br \/>\nwaved my nude arms at villages going by,<br \/>\nlearning the last bright routes, survivor<br \/>\nwhere your flames still bite my thigh<br \/>\nand my ribs crack where your wheels wind.<br \/>\nA woman like that is not ashamed to die.<br \/>\nI have been her kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her Kind &#8211; Anne Sexton I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done my hitch over the plain houses, light by light: lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=5892\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-5892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5892"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5897,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions\/5897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}