{"id":4885,"date":"2013-04-10T12:45:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T17:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/?p=4885"},"modified":"2013-04-10T12:45:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T17:45:52","slug":"sonnet-4-in-iambic-tetrameter-memorys-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/10\/sonnet-4-in-iambic-tetrameter-memorys-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet #4 in Iambic Tetrameter &#8211; &#8220;Memory&#8217;s Daughter&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am awake now to each wall.<br \/>\nThat is the wall, this need to speak.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s Buddha&#8217;s tall and Buddha&#8217;s small<br \/>\nAnd secret castles across this creek.<\/p>\n<p>I want to walk on ancient clouds<br \/>\nAnd fall with Isis from the sky.<br \/>\nPlop, splashing down the Nile,<br \/>\nThese hands that swim know how to fly.<\/p>\n<p>From Memphis to Syr&#8217;ya we&#8217;ll go<br \/>\nAs Roman armies swarm the cross,<br \/>\nWhich world we land Nut only knows<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re trees, and sparrows, hiding gods.<\/p>\n<p>The garden&#8217;s wall so silent I pray.<br \/>\nThat doves will fly and pierce this gate.<\/p>\n<h5>\u00a92013 Stephen K. Pickering<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am awake now to each wall. That is the wall, this need to speak. There&#8217;s Buddha&#8217;s tall and Buddha&#8217;s small And secret castles across this creek. I want to walk on ancient clouds And fall with Isis from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/10\/sonnet-4-in-iambic-tetrameter-memorys-daughter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,33,36],"tags":[432,429,71],"class_list":["post-4885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-poetry","category-poems","category-sonnets","tag-my-poetry","tag-poems","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}