{"id":2723,"date":"2013-08-15T18:06:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T15:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=2723"},"modified":"2013-08-15T18:16:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T15:16:22","slug":"refugee-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=2723","title":{"rendered":"Refugee Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"images\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/images9.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2727\" alt=\"images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/images9-250x183.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\"><strong>Refugee Man<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the camps only the rats are fat yet always hungry<br \/>splashing on beady feet through the gutters<\/p>\n<p>from place to place, weaselling through the holes<br \/>where the wind blows in its silent breaths, looking for water<\/p>\n<p>the wind and the rat, light-fingered thieves of<br \/>those bits we have hoarded and waited for<\/p>\n<p>Up among the legs of a woman, in caches of fur and bread crumbs<br \/>They crawl in their secrets, chewing holes in another language through plastic bags?<br \/>Stuffed in dark places<\/p>\n<p>I teach my son somewhere new and we find<br \/>tiny marks of teeth and the smell of wind breath, sour from the salt, on bags left collapsed<br \/>of any life they might have had<\/p>\n<p>And so he learns<br \/>And so he will keep on with his stones in the air and one day<\/p>\n<p>he\u2019ll become a million pieces of flesh falling through the sky<br \/>singing red in Jerusalem<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Susan Wolff<\/em><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; \u00a0 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2723"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2726,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions\/2726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}