{"id":3178,"date":"2022-11-25T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2022-10-06T16:14:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T23:14:29","slug":"friend-of-my-mind-by-sarah-stemp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2022\/11\/25\/friend-of-my-mind-by-sarah-stemp\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Friend of My Mind&#8221; by Sarah Stemp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>You, a tree, in me,<br>over time.<br><em>If it dread, if it darken, if fall<\/em><br><em>to ruin, you will do, this too,<\/em><br><em>the next thing\u2026over time.<\/em><br>Now one foot now the other. Now<br>late, even. I am keeper of undermined,<br>you are patient.<br><em>All of us, any of us,<\/em> you said, <em>I wasn\u2019t born<\/em><br><em>this way.<\/em><br>I, unbuilt.<br>See how the thickening clouds yield light snow.<br>Why am I unseasonably cool?<br>Friend of my mind:<br>We restore ancient things, sweet, salt, &amp;<br>bitter. We bring things back and back.<br>The dark is big.<br>I met you in the district of rain, the tears<br>of things. Later than we might have known,<br>but both still vivid.<br>I am in the habit of you, and sometimes<br>able to, my soft parts, tenderly.<br>Things that have to do with enlargement.<br><em>What had been required of you<\/em>.<br>If I had not submitted, nowhere.<br>Also, what you yourself went through affects<br>interpenetration:<br>We investigate each other\u2019s bearings.<br>Things come up between us, wide.<br><em>I am glad this journey with you<\/em>, you said.<br>Sometimes, with you, I luminate.<br>Abiding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><br><em>Sarah Stemp is a poet and psychologist\/psychoanalyst in New York City. She has published poetry on various topics related to the role of grief and mourning in the creation of something new.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You, a tree, in me,over time.If it dread, if it darken, if fallto ruin, you will do, this too,the next thing\u2026over time.Now one foot now the other. Nowlate, even. I am keeper of undermined,you are patient.All of us, any of us, you said, I wasn\u2019t bornthis way.I, unbuilt.See how the thickening clouds yield light snow.Why &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2022\/11\/25\/friend-of-my-mind-by-sarah-stemp\/\" 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-3178","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\/3178","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=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3179,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions\/3179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}