{"id":572,"date":"2019-04-20T01:14:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T01:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=572"},"modified":"2019-04-20T01:14:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T01:14:08","slug":"poem-of-the-month-old-photos-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"Poem of the Month: Old Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/images-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-218\" src=\"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/images-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" 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\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">See how she leans into him<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">as if the room were slightly tilted<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">and she had curved her body to meet it<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">hiding from him the angle at which she lives<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">and here, again, with all the children<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">she leans, this time away<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">keeping her secret balance<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">making it look easy<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">like a ballerina on a wooden toe<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He stands firm, peers straight ahead<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">feet set apart like a soldier at ease<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">he does not need to touch her<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">to know she is there<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">careful furniture in a blind man&#8217;s house<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">his wide-legged pose lurks steady, still<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">like an intake of breath<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">or the eye of a storm<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">They face the camera here with tired smiles<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">cast in dim light<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">the lens yawns too long<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">reaching for them<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">and blurs her hand<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">in some small gesture<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">he refuses to notice<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">her eyes slide toward the curtained window<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">just at the edge of the frame<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOld Photos\u201d was published in the anthology <i>Autumn Harvest <\/i>by Quill Books, Bristol, IN, 2001.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; See how she leans into him as if the room were slightly tilted <a href=\"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=572\" 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-572","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\/572","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=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}