{"id":1604,"date":"2019-11-05T01:14:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T01:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2019-10-10T01:29:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T01:29:15","slug":"two-poems-by-ben-boegehold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/11\/05\/two-poems-by-ben-boegehold\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Poems by Ben Boegehold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ben Boegehold lives in Portland, Maine, with his wife and dog. When he is not teaching high school English, he can be found in his backyard starting endless projects, or walking in the woods. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


A Cure<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My father tells me about the sunlight, measures
\ndiminishment in vernal equivalent. When autumn<\/p>\n\n\n\n

days grow raw and short, we plant before the frost.
\nIn spring we count the shoots poking through the straw. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At solstice, we cut off the pungent green stalks.
\nSummer tilts toward fall. Now, a sharp sweetness <\/p>\n\n\n\n

sparks a fire. Dull tines pierce papery skin.
\nYellow leaves, brown hardneck, white roots – <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I plunge my turning fork deeper into the clay,
\nuprooting purple bulbs below. The sweetness <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again – different from the thorny caned raspberries
\nand the viny peas of July. It lingers long after<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve gathered the bulbs in bunches of five
\nto dry and cure from the wooden rafters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Erratics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An osprey shimmers above
\nchiselled granite and spruce.
\nHer piping cries echo
\noff tourmaline waves.
\nOver mountains a white sun
\nglinting on glacial castaways.
\nWhite shells on rocks below.
\nRockweed reanimates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Water recedes.
\nWater returns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Water caresses
            round stones by the
            shore – restless
            embrace of goodbye
            and hello.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ben Boegehold lives in Portland, Maine, with his wife and dog. When he is not teaching high school English, he can be found in his backyard starting endless projects, or walking in the woods. A Cure My father tells me about the sunlight, measures diminishment in vernal equivalent. When autumn days grow raw and short, … 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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604","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-pS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","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=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}