{"id":14388,"date":"2022-10-18T17:18:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T16:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=14388"},"modified":"2022-10-18T17:18:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T16:18:58","slug":"poetry-nicholas-battey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2022\/10\/18\/poetry-nicholas-battey-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry: Nicholas Battey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Last Breath of Leaves<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cup a pear, hear it abscise,<br \/>\nnumber the days until ripe;<br \/>\nthe river chuckles with swollen pride &#8211;<br \/>\nback to a ditch by six,<br \/>\ndrained away to the scaly, selfish sea.<\/p>\n<p>At dawn there\u2019s steam across the water,<br \/>\na cloud of egrets scuds over;<br \/>\nold and waiting, mud for water,<br \/>\nleaves for a last breath<br \/>\nof wind, tremor, helical free fall &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>after life, lope and leap<br \/>\nto nattering heaps; then left<br \/>\nto turn to mull, down horizons sift,<br \/>\nforgotten shades of ochre,<br \/>\nlignin nets over rheumy, russet stones.<\/p>\n<p>Fish the shilletts from their dark homes<br \/>\nin the deep, brown ocean;<br \/>\ngrateful, cosseting crumbs swirl in,<br \/>\nclose and ready for roots:<br \/>\nsuccouring limbs of bulb, corm, meristem.<\/p>\n<p>Here my mulling days are numbered,<br \/>\npride in appearance doomed;<br \/>\nhares teem across the water,<br \/>\nwhile clouds of regrets scud over;<br \/>\nfor I am old and loping after life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Breath of Leaves Cup a pear, hear it abscise, number the days until ripe; the river chuckles with swollen pride &#8211; back to a ditch by six, drained away to the scaly, selfish sea. At dawn there\u2019s steam across the water, a cloud of egrets scuds over; old and waiting, mud for water, leaves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":14389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[842,6580,6581,6583,6590,6594,6595,7341,9689],"class_list":["post-14388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-uncategorized","tag-battey","tag-nicholas","tag-nicholas-battey","tag-nicholas-battey-cassandra-voices","tag-nicholas-battey-leaves","tag-nicholas-battey-poet","tag-nicholas-battey-poetry","tag-poetry","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}