{"id":821,"date":"2012-03-15T17:07:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T17:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=821"},"modified":"2012-03-15T17:07:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T17:07:12","slug":"september-09","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=821","title":{"rendered":"September &#8217;09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Finally! We got some sort of Summer, albeit an Indian one. Still, better late than never, and why, exactly do we expect a good Summer any more &#8211; or ever?! Anyway, here&#8217;s one I wrote during those hot, sultry evenings when we thought it&#8217;d never end&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Indian Summer day<\/p>\n<p>High in the wide blue,<br \/>\nordered chaos of swallows<br \/>\npractice Winter moves.<\/p>\n<p>Hawkish harrier<br \/>\nignores harrying mobsters,<br \/>\nsweeps sunwise circles.<\/p>\n<p>Honey-tongued thrushes,<br \/>\nfrom leafy, cool, concealment,<br \/>\nsing their repetoire:<\/p>\n<p>after months of wind,<br \/>\nexulting in song-hearing<br \/>\nand in being heard.<\/p>\n<p>Pink anemones<br \/>\ndance with different partners:<br \/>\nthis day is for bees.<\/p>\n<p>A peeling, blue chair<br \/>\nstill, in unfamiliar heat,<br \/>\ndozing old-timer.<\/p>\n<p>Limp euphorbia,<br \/>\ndown by steaming compost-heap,<br \/>\nseed-pods heat-splitting.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, for swallows,<br \/>\ntoday, thoughts of migration<br \/>\nseem not so urgent!<\/p>\n<p>(22\/09\/09)<\/p>\n<p>**************************<\/p>\n<p>Thistledown<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard of dancers,<br \/>\nlight, bright ballerina-shoals<br \/>\nsurfing the hedges.<\/p>\n<p>(04\/09\/09)<\/p>\n<p>**************************<\/p>\n<p>Daddy long-legs<\/p>\n<p>Cranefly skittering<br \/>\n&#8217;round the room&#8217;s periphery,<br \/>\nconfused by the light.<\/p>\n<p>(12\/09\/09)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally! We got some sort of Summer, albeit an Indian one. Still, better late than never, and why, exactly do we expect a good Summer any more &#8211; or ever?! Anyway, here&#8217;s one I wrote during those hot, sultry evenings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=821\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":487,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P36zMW-df","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/821\/revisions\/823"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}