{"id":81567,"date":"2016-10-31T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=81567"},"modified":"2016-10-18T11:45:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T10:45:57","slug":"artemis-or-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/10\/artemis-or-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis or You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/emanuel-garcia.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-81513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/emanuel-garcia-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"emanuel-garcia\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t blame the moon,<br \/>\nThough tempted, for mistaking you<br \/>\nIn Artemis, or Artemis in you,<br \/>\nWho could tell, she was so swift,<br \/>\nYou had fled, I was pulled<br \/>\nInto the deepening shade,<br \/>\nMy markers were obscured<br \/>\nBy the thickening stationary<br \/>\nCloud<\/p>\n<p>I followed my veins<br \/>\nOn this soundless night,<br \/>\nThrough rutted paths, ascents,<br \/>\nAcross the pits and mounds,<br \/>\nGrasses sparse, they would<br \/>\nLead me, not so much a choice<\/p>\n<p>I wanted a word with you,<br \/>\nWith her, given, sent,<br \/>\nTo pluck your garland,<br \/>\nTake your bow \u2013 what use<br \/>\nHad it here against<br \/>\nMy poetry?<\/p>\n<p>And who I am, or you,<br \/>\nOr she, or he who has taken<br \/>\nMy guise \u2013<br \/>\nGive my voice a chance<br \/>\nAs we wait, low, entangled:<br \/>\nThere is much in this earth,<br \/>\nNot always bruising,<br \/>\nNever wholly cold<br \/>\n______________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Dr. Emanuel E. 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>I couldn&#8217;t blame the moon,<br \/>\nThough tempted, for mistaking you<br \/>\nIn Artemis, or Artemis in you,<br \/>\nWho could tell, she was so swift,<\/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-81567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81567","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=81567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}