{"id":90002,"date":"2017-04-10T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=90002"},"modified":"2017-04-05T11:16:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T10:16:43","slug":"the-door-ajar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/04\/the-door-ajar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Door Ajar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The door ajar<br \/>\nAnd more \u2013<br \/>\nI brought so little<br \/>\nAnd the room above your garden<br \/>\nWas so spare<\/p>\n<p>Through the open window<br \/>\nBuds and leaves and petals<br \/>\nSwayed or fallen, reckless undergrowth \u2013<br \/>\nA tapestry so deeply dyed that<br \/>\nEvery morning<br \/>\nI would lay in wait for the creeping warmth<br \/>\nTo show another hidden maze<\/p>\n<p>Nights I roamed a little westward<br \/>\nThrough the hallways,<br \/>\nUp and down the stairs of the empty house<\/p>\n<p>The sea was in my bones, I thought,<br \/>\nKissing the cool white plaster of the winding walls:<br \/>\nI wanted to adorn them with shipwreck,<br \/>\nStars, tales of the always fatal glance<br \/>\nThat made for wandering<\/p>\n<p>When I found you at my post<br \/>\nIn the dead of dark<br \/>\nFilling your lungs with the fragrance of pursuit,<br \/>\nI lingered at the threshold:<br \/>\nEven a tired eye would glisten<br \/>\nAt the mischief of art, would glow<br \/>\nFor the keen blade of a wave<\/p>\n<p>It was time to pack our bags<\/p>\n<p><em>March 2017<\/em><br \/>\n_________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/EmanuelGarcia-e1488039210726.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-87560 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/EmanuelGarcia-e1491387330190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><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>The door ajar<br \/>\nAnd more \u2013<br \/>\nI brought so little<br \/>\nAnd the room above your garden<br \/>\nWas so spare<\/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-90002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90002","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=90002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}