Grief, not grievance is poetry\u2019s work
Frost quipped\u2014not something to shirk
or shy away from by opting for complaint. Grief,
he also wrote, is a form of patience\u2014an idea not
so easy to get\u2014although, when a bird, thought
extinct for decades, is seen\u2014grief knows some relief,
and, having waited patiently as magma, rises to
be released. One scientist sobbed, after he caught
a glimpse of the woodpecker, flying across
his bow as he paddled the bayou. Hope, I was taught,
is often grief\u2019s midwife, opening the door for loss
to pass through. The second scientist\u2014there were two\u2014
steadied himself by suggesting a typical, field routine.
Each sat, writing down everything they\u2019d just seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grief, not grievance is poetry\u2019s workFrost quipped\u2014not something to shirkor shy away from by opting for complaint. Grief,he also wrote, is a form of patience\u2014an idea notso easy to get\u2014although, when a bird, thoughtextinct for decades, is seen\u2014grief knows some relief,and, having waited patiently as magma, rises tobe released. One scientist sobbed, after he caughta … 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-2523","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-EH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523","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=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Charles Weld is a retired mental health counselor\/administrator, now working part-time in an agency treating youth, He lives in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"