{"id":343,"date":"2017-07-16T20:34:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T20:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=343"},"modified":"2017-07-16T20:34:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T20:34:01","slug":"poem-of-the-month-for-sissy-on-her-50th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Poem of the Month: For Sissy on Her 50th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/modular19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-344 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/modular19-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/modular19-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/modular19.jpg 592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">if a polygon<br \/>\n<\/span>can tamper with its shape<br \/>\ncan hinge and fold<br \/>\ninto a pyramid<\/p>\n<p>a dancer<br \/>\ncan resolve herself<br \/>\ninto a poet<\/p>\n<p>can arc and fling her words<br \/>\nlike fluid limbs<br \/>\nname nameless things<\/p>\n<p>qualify sound<br \/>\nas posed muscle<br \/>\nsalute age<\/p>\n<p>accost change<br \/>\nwith mighty leaps<br \/>\nof mad grace<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For Sissy on Her 50th Birthday&#8221; was published in the journal<em>,\u00a0<\/em><em>A Wise Woman&#8217;s Garden<\/em>, Madison, WI, 1997.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/modular19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-344\" src=\"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/modular19-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/modular19-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/modular19.jpg 592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>if a polygon can tamper with its shape can hinge and fold into a pyramid a dancer can resolve herself <a href=\"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=343\" 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-343","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\/343","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=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}