{"id":3677,"date":"2014-01-05T12:09:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T10:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3677"},"modified":"2014-01-05T12:09:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T10:09:35","slug":"night-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3677","title":{"rendered":"Night poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"bluecandle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bluecandle.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3678\" alt=\"bluecandle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bluecandle-250x250.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bluecandle-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bluecandle-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">Night poem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is nothing to be afraid of,<br \/> it is only the wind<br \/> changing to the east, it is only<br \/> your father the thunder<br \/> your mother the rain<\/p>\n<p>In this country of water<br \/> with its beige moon damp as a mushroom,<br \/> its drowned stumps and long birds<br \/> that swim, where the moss grows<br \/> on all sides of the trees<br \/> and your shadow is not your shadow<br \/> but your reflection,<\/p>\n<p>your true parents disappear<br \/> when the curtain covers your door.<br \/> We are the others,<br \/> the ones from under the lake<br \/> who stand silently beside your bed<br \/> with our heads of darkness.<br \/> We have come to cover you<br \/> with red wool,<br \/> with our tears and distant whispers.<\/p>\n<p>You rock in the rain\u2019s arms,<br \/> the chilly ark of your sleep,<br \/> while we wait, your night<br \/> father and mother,<br \/> with our cold hands and dead flashlight,<br \/> knowing we are only<br \/> the wavering shadows thrown<br \/> by one candle, in this echo<br \/> you will hear twenty years later.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Margaret Atwood<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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-3677","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\/3677","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=3677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3680,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions\/3680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}