{"id":3761,"date":"2023-11-27T20:57:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T00:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=3761"},"modified":"2023-11-27T20:57:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T00:57:43","slug":"mid-september","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/mid-september\/","title":{"rendered":"mid September"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>mid September<\/h2>\n<p>Travis Stephens<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>as though<br \/>\nnothing had happened,<br \/>\nthe distant sun consuming<br \/>\na bit of its heart,<br \/>\nthe ocean tide<br \/>\nretreating<br \/>\nwithout shame.<br \/>\neven the birds,<br \/>\nsaid to be tiny angels,<br \/>\nraise their eyes to heaven<br \/>\nin tremulous, practiced<br \/>\nsong.<br \/>\nwhile you,<br \/>\nnot forgotten,<br \/>\neven your voice,<br \/>\nmid-sentence in<br \/>\na story i&#8217;ve heard before,<br \/>\nyou no longer<br \/>\non this motherless<br \/>\nearth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4011 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2023\/11\/TS-sailing-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"A man on a boat, both hands are on the steering wheels on the sea. \" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Travis Stephens<\/strong> is a tugboat captain who lives and works in California. His book of poetry, \u201cskeeter bit &amp; still drunk\u201d was published by Finishing Line Press. Visit him at: zolothstephenswriters.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mid September Travis Stephens &nbsp; as though nothing had happened, the distant sun consuming a bit of its heart, the ocean tide retreating without shame. even the birds, said to <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/mid-september\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6626,"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\/3761"}],"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\/6626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3761"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4557,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3761\/revisions\/4557"}],"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=3761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}