{"id":9209,"date":"2020-08-14T11:03:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T10:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=9209"},"modified":"2020-08-14T11:03:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T10:03:23","slug":"poetry-haley-hodges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2020\/08\/14\/poetry-haley-hodges\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry \u2013 Haley Hodges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Make of me, too, a microcosm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">Make of me, too, a microcosm\u2014<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">Merger, marry, manifest<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">As the bridegroom, as the stone-melted<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">Heart. Move but do not remove me, for monsters<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">Maraud in madness here, and we meet<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">Mettle to mettle about the place. But you\u2014<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">Magnificent as mystery, as morning, you<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">Are mooring the ship of me, mastering the maze<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">Of my malaise to run like marrow through bronze<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">Bones, an\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">unmappable<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">\u00a0river overlapping the<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">Mayhem. You mumble or hum of Spring-things,<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">May-things made for me, mighty and bright<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">As midnight meteor, final as\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">eucatastrophe<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">Mounting in stillness. You dip\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">Ursa<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">\u00a0Major<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">Into the pail with a wink milky as motherhood:<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">Come meadow, come minnow, come maple<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">And mink, come drink, (you say) come marvel!<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">Our blue marble maiden\u2014mess though she may be\u2014<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">Her majesty is mineral-deep! Minstrels sing it and mages<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">Know it. Myriad music still marks her mind, her memory,<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">Music of mending and meaning, naming and being\u2014<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">Music of mackerel meandering, matter and mass,<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">Metaphysical music marching from moment to minute<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">To minute and back in a palindrome line, meticulous<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">And light as a match, hatchling fresh. You say much more,<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">All unmeasurable, and to the unending moment of you I say:<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"yiv4695916317s2\">Make of me, too, a magic.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make of me, too, a microcosm Make of me, too, a microcosm\u2014 Merger, marry, manifest As the bridegroom, as the stone-melted Heart. Move but do not remove me, for monsters Maraud in madness here, and we meet Mettle to mettle about the place. But you\u2014 Magnificent as mystery, as morning, you Are mooring the ship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":9459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[245,3937,3951,5788,9480],"class_list":["post-9209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-a-microcosm","tag-haley-hodges","tag-haley-hodges-poetry","tag-make-of-me","tag-too"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9209","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9209\/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=9209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}