{"id":2694,"date":"2022-10-25T18:20:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T22:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=2694"},"modified":"2022-11-02T11:30:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T15:30:26","slug":"im-a-stranger-here-myself","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/im-a-stranger-here-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m a Stranger Here Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2734\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2734\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2734\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2022\/10\/Jez-Timms_Hobbit-Shire-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Forest trees in autumn \" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Hobbit Shire&#8221; by Jez Timms<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>I&#8217;m a Stranger Here Myself<\/h2>\n<p>by Brian Builta<\/p>\n<p>All the November acorns<br \/>\ncrushed and powdering the walk<br \/>\nmake me sad, too, sweetie.<\/p>\n<p>That night camping<br \/>\nwith the forest noises<br \/>\nstays with me.<\/p>\n<p>The first time I heard Going Home<br \/>\nfrom the New World Symphony<br \/>\nI was sitting in rush hour, the sun<\/p>\n<p>rising, my soul mid-herkie, the cello<br \/>\nfull of heaven and hope. Sometimes<br \/>\nwalking in the sun is enough. Other days<\/p>\n<p>you have to fall apart a bit<br \/>\nbefore the machinery catches<br \/>\nand everything clicks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x_contentpasted0\"><b>Brian Builta\u00a0<\/b><\/span><span class=\"x_contentpasted0\">lives in Arlington, Texas, and works at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a Stranger Here Myself by Brian Builta All the November acorns crushed and powdering the walk make me sad, too, sweetie. That night camping with the forest noises stays <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/im-a-stranger-here-myself\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6089,"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\/2694"}],"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\/6089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2749,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2694\/revisions\/2749"}],"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=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}