{"id":2572,"date":"2015-09-23T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/writers-weir-kicking-up-snow\/"},"modified":"2015-09-23T08:00:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T15:00:36","slug":"writers-weir-kicking-up-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/writers-weir-kicking-up-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers Weir: Kicking up snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>kicking up snow<br \/>and breaking ice<br \/>both ears filled<br \/>with the sound of songbirds,<br \/>thick in the trees up mountain.<\/p>\n<p>the ravens are hungry enough<br \/>to eat compost and old spaghetti,<br \/>the long strings of white flour<br \/>tangling in their feathers.<br \/>but they have begun<br \/>to tear up the sky<br \/>in hot pursuit<br \/>and they are perching<br \/>on rooftops two by two.<\/p>\n<p>flocks of little dark ducks<br \/>punctuate the inlet<br \/>and, then, pass on.<\/p>\n<p>springtime, I whisper,<br \/>my breath sparkling in the air.<\/p>\n<p>not six hours later<br \/>a warm rain begins melting,<br \/>melting, melting&#8230;<br \/>the snow from the branches of the trees,<br \/>the icicles hanging from my roof.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Sarah Williams experiences poetry as clear, brave, passionate speech. For 38 years she has lived all around Alaska, mostly in a small village. What she has experienced she finds best expressed in a poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>kicking up snowand breaking iceboth ears filledwith the sound of songbirds,thick in the trees up mountain. the ravens are hungry enoughto eat compost and old spaghetti,the long strings of white flourtangling in their feathers.but they have begunto tear up the skyin hot pursuitand they are perchingon rooftops two by two. flocks of little dark duckspunctuate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":2573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[74],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}