{"id":151238,"date":"2020-02-10T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=151238"},"modified":"2020-01-06T10:22:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T10:22:39","slug":"figures-of-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/02\/figures-of-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Figures of Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To lay the logarithmic spiral on<br \/>\nSea-shell and leaf alike, and see it fit,<br \/>\nTo watch the same idea work itself out<br \/>\nIn the fighter pilot\u2019s steepening, tightening turn<br \/>\nOnto his target, setting up the kill,<br \/>\nAnd in the flight of certain wall-eyed bugs<br \/>\nWho cannot see to fly straight into death<br \/>\nBut have to cast their sidelong glance at it<br \/>\nAnd come but cranking to the candle\u2019s flame \u2014<\/p>\n<p>How secret that is, and how privileged<br \/>\nOne feels to find the same necessity<br \/>\nCiphered in forms diverse and otherwise<br \/>\nWithout kinship \u2014 that is the beautiful<br \/>\nIn Nature as in art, not obvious,<br \/>\nNot inaccessible, but just between.<\/p>\n<p>It may diminish some our dry delight<br \/>\nTo wonder if everything we are and do<br \/>\nLies subject to some little law like that;<br \/>\nHidden in nature, but not deeply so.<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Howard-Nemerov.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-151239 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Howard-Nemerov-e1578306064876.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a><em>Howard Nemerov was an American poet. He was twice poet laureate and consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress\u20141963-1964 and 1988-1990. For <\/em>The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov<em>, he won the National Book Award for Poetry, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Bollingen Prize. <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Howard_Nemerov\" >Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To lay the logarithmic spiral on<br \/>\nSea-shell and leaf alike, and see it fit,<br \/>\nTo watch the same idea work itself out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":151239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-151238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}