{"id":1592,"date":"2019-10-29T01:38:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T01:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2019-10-08T01:41:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T01:41:11","slug":"muddy-water-by-marilyn-humbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/10\/29\/muddy-water-by-marilyn-humbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Muddy Water by Marilyn Humbert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><em> Marilyn Humbert lives in Sydney NSW Australia, she has a connection with the land from her father and often writes poems about her childhood experiences. Marilyn&#8217;s tanka and haiku can be found in many international journals and online. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:23px\"><br>Muddy Water<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>north-west of today<br>lie my childhood plains <br>muddy water country<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that man-made web of channels and drains<br>\na purple lucerne sea ebbs and flows<br>\nmy father calling his milking herd <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>halfway on a backroad home<br>\nthe undulating landscape flattens<br>\nfences stark and black edge the horizon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the channels of my past still lick their banks<br>\nbut thistles and burrs smother pastures<br>\nsurrounding the sprawl of unused drains<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>small-acre dairy herds of yesterday<br>\nusurped \u2013<br>\nconglomerates <br>\nsell cut-price supermarket milk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>winds carry father\u2019s soil <br>\nfar away<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Loddon District, North-Central Victoria, Australia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marilyn Humbert lives in Sydney NSW Australia, she has a connection with the land from her father and often writes poems about her childhood experiences. Marilyn&#8217;s tanka and haiku can be found in many international journals and online. Muddy Water north-west of todaylie my childhood plains muddy water country that man-made web of channels and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/10\/29\/muddy-water-by-marilyn-humbert\/\" 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-1592","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-pG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","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=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1595,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}