{"id":6815,"date":"2015-10-21T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/writers-weir-just-before-winter\/"},"modified":"2015-10-21T08:00:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T15:00:24","slug":"writers-weir-just-before-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/writers-weir-just-before-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers&#8217; Weir: Just Before Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This next windstorm<\/p>\n<p>will blow the last leaves from my alder.<\/p>\n<p>My view of the inlet will no longer<\/p>\n<p>afford the perspective of a foreground<\/p>\n<p>and the little brown birds and<\/p>\n<p>squirrels and woodpeckers<\/p>\n<p>will not be able to chatter, nest and hide.<\/p>\n<p>A humpback rises hugely<\/p>\n<p>out of his first element<\/p>\n<p>and plunges back in a personal tide.<\/p>\n<p>Three coho lie lifeless on the picnic table<\/p>\n<p>ready for the knife.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Deep in the woods<\/p>\n<p>the ferns are not brown,<\/p>\n<p>but capture the autumn light<\/p>\n<p>as it is broken in the fall<\/p>\n<p>through the evergreen canopy.<\/p>\n<p>Osmotically, they gather into themselves<\/p>\n<p>the soft, cold light from the hours left<\/p>\n<p>between dawn and dusk<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>like long abandoned saints so old<\/p>\n<p>they have become a stonehenge<\/p>\n<p>made of faith in circadian rhythms<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and glow with interior illumination.<\/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>This next windstorm will blow the last leaves from my alder. My view of the inlet will no longer afford the perspective of a foreground and the little brown birds and squirrels and woodpeckers will not be able to chatter, nest and hide. A humpback rises hugely out of his first element and plunges back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"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-6815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815","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=6815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6815"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}