{"id":1563,"date":"2019-10-23T01:26:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T01:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2019-10-05T22:32:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T22:32:59","slug":"flightless-by-holly-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/10\/23\/flightless-by-holly-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Flightless by Holly Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>Holly Day\u2019s poetry has recently appeared in Asimov\u2019s Science Fiction, Grain, and The Tampa Review. Her newest poetry collections are In This Place, She Is Her Own (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press), A Wall to Protect Your Eyes (Pski\u2019s Porch Publishing), Folios of Dried Flowers and Pressed Birds (<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/cyberwit.net\/\"><em>Cyberwit.net<\/em><\/a><em>), Where We Went Wrong (Clare Songbirds Publishing), Into the Cracks (Golden Antelope Press), and Cross Referencing a Book of Summer (Silver Bow Publishing). <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:23px\"><br>Flightless<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:17px\">The dove sits cupped in my hands, calm, I don\u2019t know why. <br>\nI have never met this bird before, and I am so much bigger than it, this creature<br>\nwhose little heart beats so fast against my palm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:17px\">I have learned to accept the trust of strange birds, no longer wonder<br>\nat the crows that follow me as I purposefully drop breakfast crumbs in my wake<br>\ntrust I will be allowed to come within petting distance of Canada geese.<br>\nI don\u2019t know why. I\u2019m so much heavier, slower, bound to earth than they are<br>\nsome jealous, lumbering beast that scrabbles to find <br>\njust a part of me in them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holly Day\u2019s poetry has recently appeared in Asimov\u2019s Science Fiction, Grain, and The Tampa Review. Her newest poetry collections are In This Place, She Is Her Own (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press), A Wall to Protect Your Eyes (Pski\u2019s Porch Publishing), Folios of Dried Flowers and Pressed Birds (Cyberwit.net), Where We Went Wrong (Clare Songbirds Publishing), Into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/10\/23\/flightless-by-holly-day\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-pd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1568,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions\/1568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}