I\u2019m told the wind is the keeper of memories
But I don\u2019t even think it knows
When I started bleeding<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A young man stands on the shore
Where clockwork waves
Only move with the death of butterflies<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sand swims over his feet
He grabs a handful of the
Loose ground and lets it<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Slip into the water
He\u2019s a February child, like me
I can tell from his voice<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It falls like heart-shaped snow
I pick up the sand
It brings me back to Cub Scouts<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDon\u2019t worry. We\u2019ll catch you\u201d
I lean back like a baby eagle learning to fly
Gravity does its only routine
Two boys back away from me
My body meets the tile floor<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sand slides out of my grasp
My fingers are frost, born of ice
The shore shows itself again<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don\u2019t think it worked<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m told the wind is the keeper of memoriesBut I don\u2019t even think it knowsWhen I started bleeding A young man stands on the shoreWhere clockwork wavesOnly move with the death of butterflies Sand swims over his feetHe grabs a handful of theLoose ground and lets it Slip into the waterHe\u2019s a February child, like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"art_contributors":[],"literary_contributors":[360],"class_list":["post-5666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","literary_contributors-dunn-cristian"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5667,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666\/revisions\/5667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5666"},{"taxonomy":"art_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/art_contributors?post=5666"},{"taxonomy":"literary_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_contributors?post=5666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}