{"id":331,"date":"2017-06-25T16:58:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T16:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=331"},"modified":"2017-06-25T16:58:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T16:58:31","slug":"poem-of-the-month-los-angeles-stairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Poem of the Month: Los Angeles Stairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When anxious, blue or simply dreamy<a href=\"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/images-1-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-330\" src=\"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/images-1-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/images-1-2.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/images-1-2-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI walk Los Angeles stairs<br \/>\nup beside back gardens<br \/>\nbelonging to Tuscany or Puebla<br \/>\ndown through drooping trees<br \/>\nunpruned, tumbling ivy<br \/>\nsun-hot railings overhung<br \/>\nwith wild anise lace<br \/>\ncollections of paper bits<br \/>\nbougainvillea blossoms, snail shells<br \/>\ndried like sleep in step corners<\/p>\n<p>Blood pumps on the way up<br \/>\nknees complain on the way down<br \/>\nsometimes you can\u2019t see at the start<br \/>\nwhere you\u2019ll let out<br \/>\nwhich way you\u2019ll need to turn<br \/>\nto get back home<\/p>\n<p>Laurel and Hardy dragged a piano<br \/>\nup one long flight over and over<br \/>\nalways losing purchase just before the top<br \/>\nthey watch the piano fall<br \/>\nin clanging disharmony<br \/>\nthey descend, resigned<br \/>\nheft it once more, lose it again<br \/>\ntoday a plaque marks those steep stairs<br \/>\nfootnote to film history<br \/>\nand the errands of earnest fools<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/images-1-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-330\" src=\"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/images-1-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/images-1-2.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/images-1-2-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When anxious, blue or simply dreamy I walk Los Angeles stairs up beside back gardens belonging to Tuscany or Puebla <a href=\"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=331\" 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-331","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\/331","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=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}