As the swallows gather on telephone wires
\nI wake out of my summer slumber
\nand start to trace the lines of the breeze
\nwhile I drift among the trees
\ncupping the leaves within my hands
\nI \u00a0breathing on them
\nturning this one red and that one yellow
\nthey remain a while glowing in autumn sun .<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
When they start to fall
\nmy shadow stalks
\nin twilight airs
\ncareful not to step too heavily
\non rain-sodden ground
\nI linger amongst the \u00a0bare trees
\nwary I listen
\ncaressing \u00a0the grass
\ntil each blade is outlined in white
\nwaiting until the ground is quiet
\nand then on a clear night
\nI fall.
\nWhite traceries mark
\nmy touch down
\nbut seeking
\nthe \u00a0resting place
\nof the dew waters
\nI dive deeper,
\nuntil I have
\nthe earth
\nin my grip.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
This poem I published in\u00a0 \u201cScissors, Paper, Shadow, Stone\u201d a collection of prose and poetry from Broomspring Writers in 2012<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the swallows gather on telephone wires I wake out of my summer slumber and start to trace the lines of the breeze while I drift among the trees cupping the leaves within my hands I \u00a0breathing on them turning this one red and that one yellow they remain a while glowing in autumn sun … Continue reading Jack the Hunter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[530],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}