{"id":332,"date":"2019-05-08T16:24:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T16:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/?p=332"},"modified":"2021-04-04T13:05:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T13:05:58","slug":"i-cant-help-but-observe-the-roaming-goats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/i-cant-help-but-observe-the-roaming-goats\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can&#8217;t Help but Observe the Roaming Gnats by Blake Lapin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Colliding above the William Carlos Williams book in my hand,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spring and All.<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those flying friends are above the sun &amp; skin mix,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the meandering wind,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a meadow of paved grass.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, like every day, you remain a plum, weeks from turning.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I wonder where your ashes coalesce with the soil<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and how you know this ripe brightness.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colliding above the William Carlos Williams book in my hand,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Spring and All. Those flying friends are above the sun &amp; skin &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,50],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-volume20","tag-blake-lapin"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}