{"id":1824,"date":"2008-09-19T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:29:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:29:51","slug":"poetry-friday-shadow-borne-lightly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1824","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Friday: A Shadow Borne Lightly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God in the Details<br \/>by Mike White <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve seen to it that ants<br \/>carry their dead<\/p>\n<p>in the ceremonial style<br \/>of a great long poem<\/p>\n<p>but the distances<br \/>are manageable<\/p>\n<p>and how heavy<br \/>after all is an ant<\/p>\n<p>when I am myself<br \/>a shadow borne<\/p>\n<p>so lightly<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/72\/Ants.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Photo by Fanghong, Courtesy of Wikipedia\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 388px; height: 298px;\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/72\/Ants.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a>Mike White is a Utah poet whose work has appeared in journals including <i>Verse, Poetry, Margie, Fulcrum, The Antioch Review, The Iowa Review, The New Republic, and The Threepenny Review<\/i>. I&#8217;m not able to find much more about him &#8211; but I&#8217;m looking.<\/p>\n<p>Poetry Friday today is at <a href=\"http:\/\/authoramok.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/poetry-friday-is-here.html\" target=\"_blank\">author amok<\/a>. Don&#8217;t miss Jules&#8217; discovery of William Stafford&#8217;s elegant &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1441\" target=\"_blank\">prayer of a poem<\/a>;&#8221; something you may find yourself reading over and over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God in the Detailsby Mike White I\u2019ve seen to it that antscarry their dead in the ceremonial styleof a great long poem but the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[93,10],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poetry-friday","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5161,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions\/5161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}