{"id":80768,"date":"2016-10-10T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=80768"},"modified":"2016-10-04T16:31:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T15:31:42","slug":"no-looking-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/10\/no-looking-back\/","title":{"rendered":"No Looking Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behind me the woods<br \/>\nWe had traversed so long<br \/>\nRinging with the din of pursuit,<br \/>\nShrouded, shrouding, dangerously<br \/>\nMusical \u2013 I worshipped<br \/>\nAt the scattered altars<br \/>\nIn reconnaissance, repose,<br \/>\nI learned to vanish<br \/>\nIn the changing hues of dawn<br \/>\nAlong the riverbed,<br \/>\nTo call within the shifting breezes<br \/>\nAs the sun passed high,<br \/>\nTo climb in the dark<\/p>\n<p>Now at their edge I crouch \u2013<br \/>\nAhead a new terrain,<br \/>\nTreeless and vast,<br \/>\nMoonlight bleeds upon<br \/>\nIts pocks and ridges<br \/>\nStretching out unevenly<\/p>\n<p>There is no telling<br \/>\nHow it might slope<br \/>\nA few days&#8217; journey hence,<br \/>\nOr where,<br \/>\nWhether this faintest scent of salt<br \/>\nComes from its furrows, or afar,<br \/>\nThe gift of an unknown sea<\/p>\n<p>What a delicious bracing night<br \/>\nFor setting out, for listening<br \/>\n_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Dr. Garcia is an American poet, novelist and physician who now resides in New Zealand. He may be contacted at <\/em><a href=\"mailto:emanuelegarcia@gmail.com\"><em>emanuelegarcia@gmail.com<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind me the woods<br \/>\nWe had traversed so long<br \/>\nRinging with the din of pursuit,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80768","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=80768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}