{"id":5690,"date":"2025-04-28T13:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novusliterary.comliterary.com\/?p=5690"},"modified":"2025-05-09T13:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T18:26:23","slug":"spring-gift-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/spring-gift-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">I think of her now, how she loved gardens,<br>and the genuine grace of her soul<br><br>That word she used for the slate of human construction,<br>calling here and there to smallish birds<br><br>Black dahlias, illustrative envelopes of sound,<br>things no listening can hear<br><br>The Cana Lilly, the big flowers failed states<br>in the small corners we call we weeds,<br><br>Dove blue gods that let every sparrow<br>fall with parasols, from the opulence of their death,<br><br>Marigolds, young and disenfranchised, destitute,<br>payless wanderlusts, half the age of the sun,<br><br>Secret credulities of hybrids, upstart redacted notions,<br>of what a flower might say<br><br>Were it to salute the queen bee,<br>as its rump pollinates the whole,<br><br>On the day we have risen into missionary position,<br>forgetting the frugalities of war,<br><br>Speechless as a seed, rounded vowels bootstrapped<br>to the tigers, crouched in the undergreen,<br><br>Strong colours for the wireless calling,<br>the shyness haunting the internecine affair,<br><br>And in the ravine, singer of the olive tree,<br>orchards illuminated, a dais of waifish sea<br><br>Crawling the waves stoked by dawn,<br>limericks of dancing leprechauns and an unctuous breeze,<br><br>Couched behind words unspoken, in the back rooms<br>of ivory towers, unloved and unheard.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think of her now, how she loved gardens,and the genuine grace of her soulThat word she used for the slate of human construction,calling here and there to smallish birdsBlack dahlias, illustrative envelopes of sound,things no listening can hearThe Cana Lilly, the big flowers failed statesin the small corners we call we weeds,Dove blue gods [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5518,"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":[415],"literary_contributors":[420],"class_list":["post-5690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","art_contributors-coyne-rachel","literary_contributors-bien-jeff"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3918-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5985,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690\/revisions\/5985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5690"},{"taxonomy":"art_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/art_contributors?post=5690"},{"taxonomy":"literary_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_contributors?post=5690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}