{"id":84614,"date":"2016-12-26T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=84614"},"modified":"2016-12-22T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T17:11:10","slug":"nocturne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/12\/nocturne\/","title":{"rendered":"Nocturne"},"content":{"rendered":"

By degree the grasses,
\nBark, the sharp
\nAngled faces of rock,
\nThe hanging mist around us,
\nAll turned dark<\/p>\n

Only the brooks
\nWe chose to follow
\nKept \u2013 at junctures,
\nLeaps, declivities,
\nOver impediments \u2013
\nA native white<\/p>\n

Beneath the undiminished stars
\nI might have rested
\nRelishing how, unperturbed,
\nThey endlessly flash forth,
\nI might have carefully
\nArranged my bones
\nTo nestle in the earth
\nWhere I might watch
\nHow they would disappear
\nAs daylight coaxed
\nOur breaking truths<\/p>\n

But we were traveling
\nTogether, there was only
\nTime for pace, pursuit,
\nDisguise, abandonment,
\nFor grappling inward,
\nStealing, lavishing our woes
\nWith every brief embrace
\nBefore the colours crept
\nFrom hiding into view,
\nBefore the calmer waters,
\nWhen at last we paused,
\nShowed growing strange<\/p>\n

I read nothing in the skies
\nThat day,
\nWhere or how they merged,
\nWhere or how you fled,
\nAnd I,
\nThat night,
\nThe unimaginably new.
\n________________________________________<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\n

Dr. Emanuel E. Garcia is an American poet, novelist and physician who now resides in New Zealand. He may be contacted at <\/em>emanuelegarcia@gmail.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By degree the grasses,
\nBark, the sharp
\nAngled faces of rock,
\nThe hanging mist around us,
\nAll turned dark<\/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-84614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84614","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=84614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}