{"id":3467,"date":"2013-12-06T09:29:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T07:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3467"},"modified":"2013-12-06T10:04:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T08:04:42","slug":"saint-louis-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3467","title":{"rendered":"Saint Louis Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"blog_zenobia_barlow_taking_natures_course\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blog_zenobia_barlow_taking_natures_course.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3468\" alt=\"blog_zenobia_barlow_taking_natures_course\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blog_zenobia_barlow_taking_natures_course-250x250.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blog_zenobia_barlow_taking_natures_course-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blog_zenobia_barlow_taking_natures_course-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">Saint Louis Lesson <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday the puddle pooled its chilly molecules. <br \/> I watched it grow as former snow flowed <br \/> below the lawn to where mud offered cupped embrace <br \/> then rendered reformed crystals a softer, more reflective glaze.<\/p>\n<p>By today the tiny pond projected tall pines, <br \/> invited fat robins and frisky squirrels to drink and bathe; <br \/> their stone bath and hung feeders shrugged in tired ice. <br \/> I thought I saw a spring thing happen here.<\/p>\n<p>But I am from where tropics mumble nature\u2019s metaphors, <br \/> grumble from space edge clouds and lurking swamps, <br \/> where warm and warmer dull distinction. <br \/> By afternoon another snow ended the lesson.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em> Rick Eyerdam<\/blockquote> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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-3467","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\/3467","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=3467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3470,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions\/3470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}