{"id":1899,"date":"2018-02-06T16:20:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T21:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2018-02-06T16:21:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T21:21:50","slug":"forest-king-slain-lowly-woodsman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/archives\/1899","title":{"rendered":"A Forest King is Slain by a Lowly Woodsman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Book of Broken Odes<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Your sadness<br \/>\nflutes through<br \/>\ndowel holes<br \/>\ncut by woodpeckers<br \/>\nin flaking sycamores.<\/p>\n<p>They flutter bark<br \/>\nand call the maple&#8217;s sons,<br \/>\nthe ones as well with sap<br \/>\nand weep.<\/p>\n<p>And on their tears<br \/>\nthe mayfly&#8217;s tripwire legs<br \/>\nalight to sup,<br \/>\nits wings still &#8211;<br \/>\n(flimsy fanatic,<br \/>\nhardened heretic) &#8211;<br \/>\nAnd break the skin of the miniscus<br \/>\nin a frenzy.<\/p>\n<p>A paper lantern<br \/>\nChinese<br \/>\nfloating towards the sunset,<br \/>\nfiery raging at daybreak<br \/>\nsun up; sun down.<br \/>\nHelicopter seeds,<br \/>\npacked dirt,<br \/>\ngreen sprout,<br \/>\nspreading limbs<br \/>\nwith foliage like a live crown.<br \/>\nThe swallow and his wife with<br \/>\noxhorn tails and downy chicks.<\/p>\n<p>And now, after all this, to be felled by a man.<\/p>\n<p>The mayfly&#8217;s struggles cease.<br \/>\nInertia seals all energy<br \/>\nso suddenly as to seem uncivilized.<br \/>\nThe king of the forest sways a moment &#8211;<br \/>\nand falls with a crash to the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Book of Broken Odes Your sadness flutes through dowel holes cut by woodpeckers in flaking sycamores. They flutter bark and call the maple&#8217;s sons, the ones as well with sap and weep. And on their tears the mayfly&#8217;s tripwire legs alight to sup, its wings still &#8211; (flimsy fanatic, hardened heretic) &#8211; And&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[539,220,541,545,543,303,538,544,134,386,547,3,546,540,542,85],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writings","tag-bug","tag-death","tag-environment","tag-forest","tag-free-verse","tag-imagery","tag-insect","tag-king","tag-life","tag-nature","tag-picture","tag-poetry","tag-sad","tag-tree","tag-woodsman","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Old_forest.jpg?fit=480%2C270&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WcVY-uD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions\/1900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}