{"id":3840,"date":"2026-05-17T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=3840"},"modified":"2026-04-19T11:07:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:07:53","slug":"3840","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2026\/05\/17\/3840\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Now&#8221; by D. R. James"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Once upon a then not long ago<br>enough the nows became<br>delicious, and every other then<br>took on its flat feel of \u201cMy,<br>how I have wasted\u2026\u201d Yes,<br>yes, you are who you are<br>because of blah, blah, blah\u2014<br>all that dullness, too, that<br>boredom. But now you can<br>love the nows, love those<br>who show you, look forward<br>to a better later, even risk missing<br>this now or the next. Today\u2019s<br>faint sun struggles to cast<br>yesterday\u2019s delicate warmth\u2014<br>but because it is now<br>here\u2019s its half-fazing glow<br>through filtering clouds<br>and its more mottled effect<br>on water and the water\u2019s still<br>steady sound and this alighting<br>bird who fans the translucent<br>arc of her tail feathers<br>through which you can see<br>the occasion you call <em>now<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><br><em>D. R. James, retired from nearly 40 years of teaching college writing, literature, and peace studies, lives with his psychotherapist wife in the woods near Saugatuck, Michigan. His latest of ten collections is Mobius Trip (Dos Madres Press).<\/em><br><em>https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/author\/drjamesauthorpage<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a then not long agoenough the nows becamedelicious, and every other thentook on its flat feel of \u201cMy,how I have wasted\u2026\u201d Yes,yes, you are who you arebecause of blah, blah, blah\u2014all that dullness, too, thatboredom. But now you canlove the nows, love thosewho show you, look forwardto a better later, even risk missingthis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2026\/05\/17\/3840\/\" 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_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sa867U-3840","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840","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=3840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3842,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions\/3842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}