{"id":888,"date":"2016-07-19T01:58:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T01:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/staging\/?p=888"},"modified":"2026-05-28T23:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:00:08","slug":"paula-maciejewski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue21\/paula-maciejewski\/","title":{"rendered":"Paula Maciejewski"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Nature\u2019s Encore<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Clouds drift by<br \/>\nLike cars in slow motion<br \/>\nWhite fluffy<br \/>\nCotton balls<br \/>\nA variety of shapes and sizes<br \/>\nSpread on blue wallpaper<\/p>\n<p>Some taking up more space than others<br \/>\nKing-sized soft cushions<br \/>\nInitiated by the wind they<br \/>\nMerge into each other<br \/>\nStart melting into new shapes<br \/>\nOnly to be rearranged again<br \/>\nA kaleidoscopic performance<\/p>\n<p>At times<br \/>\nIt looks like the clouds<br \/>\nAre linking arms<br \/>\nPursuing the same goal<br \/>\nA cooperative union<\/p>\n<p>Then<br \/>\nThere is a fluid<br \/>\nAnd slow break up<br \/>\nClouds move in different directions<br \/>\nParting<br \/>\nCoexisting individuals<\/p>\n<p>A play<br \/>\nWith no rehearsals<br \/>\nNature the director<br \/>\nThe sky the stage<br \/>\nA performance<br \/>\nWith an ever recurring encore<\/p>\n<p>Nature\u2019s play<br \/>\nDynamic<br \/>\nMiraculous<br \/>\nUnlimited<br \/>\nPerformed across the globe<br \/>\nGet your free passes now<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Left behind<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A red winter coat<br \/>\nThe letters she once wrote<br \/>\nIs all that remained<br \/>\nThe rest unexplained<\/p>\n<p>He woke to see her gone<br \/>\nNo note, no signature drawn<br \/>\nThe emptiness started to fill his body<br \/>\nTying his insights mercilessly<\/p>\n<p>Nothing looked familiar anymore<br \/>\nLike random items washed ashore<br \/>\nAnd he just happened to be there<br \/>\nThis place he now called nowhere<\/p>\n<p>He was certain she would never return<br \/>\nHer absence would forever burn<br \/>\nA hole in his heart<br \/>\nUnable to move towards a new start<\/p>\n<p>Was it something he said?<br \/>\nThough mostly they simply read<br \/>\nThey could read for hours, side by side<br \/>\nA comfortable silence that now has died<\/p>\n<p>A red winter coat<br \/>\nThe letters she once wrote<br \/>\nHe held them tight<br \/>\nKnowing he will never again be all right<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nature\u2019s Encore<\/strong><br \/>\nClouds drift by<br \/>\nLike cars in slow motion<br \/>\nWhite fluffy<br \/>\nCotton balls<br \/>\nA variety of shapes and sizes<br \/>\nSpread on blue wallpaper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}