{"id":6363,"date":"2023-01-31T20:04:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T20:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiannestotijn.com\/?p=6363"},"modified":"2023-01-31T20:08:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T20:08:31","slug":"if-the-owl-calls-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiannestotijn.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/31\/if-the-owl-calls-again\/","title":{"rendered":"If the Owl Calls Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_field x_field--name-field-author x_field--type-entityreference x_field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"x_field-items\">\n<div class=\"x_field-item x_even\">At dusk<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_field x_field--name-body x_field--type-text-with-summary x_field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"x_field__items\">\n<div class=\"x_field__item x_even\"><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>from the island in the river<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>and it&#8217;s not too cold,<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>I&#8217;ll wait for the moon<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>to rise,<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>then take wing and glide<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>to meet him.<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>We will not speak,<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>but hooded against the frost<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>soar above<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>the alder flats, searching<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>with tawny eyes.<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>And then we&#8217;ll sit<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>in the shadowy spruce and<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>pick the bones<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>of careless mice,<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>while the long moon drifts<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>toward Asia<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>and the river mutters<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>in its icy bed.<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>And when morning climbs<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>the limbs<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>we&#8217;ll part without a sound,<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>fulfilled, floating<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>homeward as<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>the cold world awakens.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>John Haines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At dusk from the island in the riverand it&#8217;s not too cold,I&#8217;ll wait for the moonto rise,then take wing and glideto meet him.We will not speak,but hooded against the frostsoar abovethe alder flats, searchingwith tawny eyes.And then we&#8217;ll sitin the shadowy spruce andpick the bonesof careless mice,while the long moon driftstoward Asiaand the river muttersin its icy bed.And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiannestotijn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiannestotijn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiannestotijn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiannestotijn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiannestotijn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/christiannestotijn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6367,"href":"https:\/\/christiannestotijn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363\/revisions\/6367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiannestotijn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiannestotijn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiannestotijn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}