{"id":242,"date":"2012-09-22T20:10:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T20:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/?page_id=242"},"modified":"2019-03-14T14:50:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T14:50:05","slug":"david-margoshes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/writings\/poetry\/david-margoshes\/","title":{"rendered":"Writings \/ Poetry: Dave Margoshes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>New Year\u2019s Light<\/h2>\n<p>The light shining on new snow<br \/>\nthis new year morning, turning<br \/>\nits teeth to grains of salt, its salt<br \/>\nto crystals of sugar, is new light, light<br \/>\nfilled with its own intimation of itself,<br \/>\nlight suffused with the essence<br \/>\nof light itself, this limpid light<br \/>\nthat shines on you, filling itself up.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h2>Sister<\/h2>\n<p>our sister shines, burns, sings,<br \/>\nwhile we, our limbs tangled<br \/>\nin dripping sheets, mouths too numb<br \/>\nto breathe, find ourselves sinking,<br \/>\nthe hollow wings adorning our shoulders<br \/>\nfilling up with heavy, heavy hearts,<br \/>\nbut still she shines,\u00a0chimes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Next page...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Might These be Angels?<\/h2>\n<p>What is it the geese are shouting?<br \/>\nThey pump across the piebald August sky<br \/>\nclamourous as a gaggle of gossips<br \/>\nat the fish market. There\u2019s nothing shy<br \/>\nabout these geese. You ask their opinion<br \/>\nand they give it, ask their blessing<br \/>\nand they exclaim hosannas to heaven.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h2>The old hand<\/h2>\n<p>Within the old hand, lines<br \/>\nthe fortune teller has never seen,<br \/>\nlines circling in on themselves<br \/>\nwater seeking its own level,<br \/>\nnature abhorring a vacuum. The palm reader<br \/>\nshakes her head not with worry<br \/>\nbut curiosity, raises her gaze<br \/>\nonly to turn away in surprise<br \/>\nat what she sees looking back<br \/>\nat her,<br \/>\nold eyes.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h2>Old Man Dreaming<\/h2>\n<p>I was a young man and I roared.<br \/>\nThen I fell silent.<br \/>\nThe roaring went on, but it was<br \/>\nin my ears, my dreams.<br \/>\nI became old and I grew deaf.<br \/>\nPeople shouted at me and I learned<br \/>\nto read their lips, their disappointed faces.<br \/>\nThen I heard a roaring, I recognized it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Year\u2019s Light The light shining on new snow this new year morning, turning its teeth to grains of salt, its salt to crystals of sugar, is new light, light filled with its own intimation of itself, light suffused with the essence of light itself, this limpid light that shines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":779,"parent":229,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-242","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions\/694"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}