{"id":373,"date":"2017-10-17T18:39:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T18:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=373"},"modified":"2017-10-17T18:39:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T18:39:02","slug":"poem-of-the-month-the-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Poem of the Month: The Witness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw her get into a car with a strange man, he said.<br \/>\nNot the man she\u2019s living with, he meant.<br \/>\nA man I didn\u2019t know, he meant.<br \/>\nShe was smiling.<\/p>\n<p>I saw her get into a car with a strange man, he said.<br \/>\nLike a whore, he meant.<br \/>\nLike she didn\u2019t know, he meant.<br \/>\nLike it was all right.<\/p>\n<p>I saw her get into a car with a strange man, he said.<br \/>\nOut in the open, he meant.<br \/>\nWithout shame or stealth, he meant.<br \/>\nOf her own free will.<\/p>\n<p>If he knew, it would tear him apart, he said.<br \/>\nHis eyes should be opened, he meant.<br \/>\nI\u2019m going to tell him, he meant.<br \/>\nI\u2019ll stand by him.<\/p>\n<p>I saw her, he said.<br \/>\nI saw her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/6953992-car-red-street-city-auto-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-370\" src=\"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/6953992-car-red-street-city-auto-1-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/6953992-car-red-street-city-auto-1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/6953992-car-red-street-city-auto-1-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/6953992-car-red-street-city-auto-1-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/6953992-car-red-street-city-auto-1-800x500.jpg 800w, https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/6953992-car-red-street-city-auto-1.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Witness\u201d was published in the anthology, <i>Lovers and Liars, <\/i>Saturday Afternoon Press, Los Angeles, 1992.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw her get into a car with a strange man, he said. Not the man she\u2019s living with, he <a href=\"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=373\" 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-373","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\/373","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=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}