{"id":1242,"date":"2021-04-27T09:42:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T13:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=1242"},"modified":"2021-06-18T07:40:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T11:40:49","slug":"rehearsal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/rehearsal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rehearsal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/04\/Birds-from-Momoyogusa_Kamisaka-Sekka_rawpixel_2049872-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1228\" width=\"506\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/04\/Birds-from-Momoyogusa_Kamisaka-Sekka_rawpixel_2049872-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/04\/Birds-from-Momoyogusa_Kamisaka-Sekka_rawpixel_2049872-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/04\/Birds-from-Momoyogusa_Kamisaka-Sekka_rawpixel_2049872-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/04\/Birds-from-Momoyogusa_Kamisaka-Sekka_rawpixel_2049872-690x462.jpg 690w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/04\/Birds-from-Momoyogusa_Kamisaka-Sekka_rawpixel_2049872-390x261.jpg 390w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/04\/Birds-from-Momoyogusa_Kamisaka-Sekka_rawpixel_2049872.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><figcaption><em>Birds from Momoyogusa<\/em> by Kamisaka Sekka<br>&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-ebd350a0-52e6-42d5-ae4d-f1057ebee478\"><strong>Rehearsal<\/strong><br>John Stocks<br><br>Sometimes you lie, wrapped tight,<br>so snug that it looks like a rehearsal,<br>for a time when I am no longer there<br>the span of years when women live alone.<br><br>Curled like a dormouse in winter torpor<br>lying on a bed of apple scented moss.<br>Lost somewhere. In a kindness of winter sleep<br>of sighs and murmurs, scarcely breathing.<br><br>As, unheeded, time slips through our fingers<br>transience, like an unseen mountain stream.<br>As ever flowing months fold into dreams<br>and then slip effortlessly into years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>John Stocks<\/strong> is a UK-based poet, novelist, historian, and free-lance journalist who has had work published in magazines worldwide and has been widely anthologized. John appeared in the Soul Feathers anthology, alongside Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and others. He also had the honor of sharing a page with Maya Angelou in the anthology, Heart Shoots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RehearsalJohn Stocks Sometimes you lie, wrapped tight,so snug that it looks like a rehearsal,for a time when I am no longer therethe span of years when women live alone. Curled <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/rehearsal\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3221,"featured_media":0,"parent":1261,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1480,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1242\/revisions\/1480"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}