{"id":17464,"date":"2025-03-15T12:21:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T12:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=17464"},"modified":"2025-03-15T12:21:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T12:21:39","slug":"poem-lovely-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/poem-lovely-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: Lovely Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lovely Dead<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If I were to let you go<br \/>\nwho would I show this garden to;<br \/>\nwho would be there to tell me \u2018no\u2019<br \/>\nit\u2019s not enough to say it\u2019s blue<\/p>\n<p>in June, when echiums greet the bees<br \/>\n(just as later they give finches seeds)<br \/>\nand turns yellow in summer sun,<br \/>\nburns to red with heleniums<\/p>\n<p>in autumn. I leave their raw<br \/>\nshaggy stems all through winter now \u2014<br \/>\nfood and shelter for birds and mice,<br \/>\nhope and remembering too \u2014 but more<br \/>\nfor the texture they bring to cold light;<br \/>\nthough to say it\u2019s not enough, I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely Dead If I were to let you go who would I show this garden to; who would be there to tell me \u2018no\u2019 it\u2019s not enough to say it\u2019s blue in June, when echiums greet the bees (just as later they give finches seeds) and turns yellow in summer sun, burns to red with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":17471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1449,2310,5674,6581,6583,6591,6594,7320,7341],"class_list":["post-17464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-cassandra-voices-poetry","tag-dead","tag-lovely","tag-nicholas-battey","tag-nicholas-battey-cassandra-voices","tag-nicholas-battey-lovely-dead","tag-nicholas-battey-poet","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17464","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=17464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17464\/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=17464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}