{"id":220,"date":"2016-07-17T21:26:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T21:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=220"},"modified":"2016-07-17T21:26:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T21:26:37","slug":"poem-of-the-month-old-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"Poem of the Month: Old Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-218 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/images-1.jpg\" alt=\"images-1\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/images-1.jpg 225w, https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/images-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>See how she leans into him<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5;\">as if the room were slightly tilted<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5;\">and she had curved her body to meet it<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5;\">hiding from him the angle at which she lives<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5;\">and here, again, with all the children<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5;\">she leans, this time away<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5;\">keeping her secret balance<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5;\">making it look easy<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5;\">like a ballerina on a wooden toe<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He stands firm, peers straight ahead<br \/>\nfeet set apart like a soldier at ease<br \/>\nhe does not need to touch her<br \/>\nto know she is there<br \/>\ncareful furniture in a blind man&#8217;s house<br \/>\nhis wide-legged pose lurks steady, still<br \/>\nlike an intake of breath<br \/>\nor the eye of a storm<\/p>\n<p>They face the camera here with tired smiles<br \/>\ncast in dim light<br \/>\nthe lens yawns too long<br \/>\nreaching for them<br \/>\nand blurs her hand<br \/>\nin some small gesture<br \/>\nhe refuses to notice<br \/>\nher eyes slide toward the curtained window<br \/>\njust at the edge of the frame<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Old Photos&#8221; was published in the anthology\u00a0<em>Autumn Harvest\u00a0<\/em>by Quill Books, Bristol, IN, 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See how she leans into him as if the room were slightly tilted and she had curved her body to <a href=\"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=220\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-noellesickelswp","post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-allposts","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}