{"id":47,"date":"2009-03-24T07:54:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T14:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/?p=47"},"modified":"2011-01-03T19:45:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T02:45:10","slug":"morning-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/2009\/03\/24\/morning-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <strong>Sylvia Plath<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Love set you going like a fat gold watch.<br \/>\nThe midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry<br \/>\nTook its place among the elements.<\/p>\n<p>Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival.  New statue.<br \/>\nIn a drafty museum, your nakedness<br \/>\nShadows our safety.  We stand round blankly as walls.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no more your mother<br \/>\nThan the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow<br \/>\nEffacement at the wind&#8217;s hand.<\/p>\n<p>All night your moth-breath<br \/>\nFlickers among the flat pink roses.  I wake to listen:<br \/>\nA far sea moves in my ear.<\/p>\n<p>One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral<br \/>\nIn my Victorian nightgown.<br \/>\nYour mouth opens clean as a cat&#8217;s.  The window square<\/p>\n<p>Whitens and swallows its dull stars.  And now you try<br \/>\nYour handful of notes;<br \/>\nThe clear vowels rise like balloons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nby Sylvia Plath Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/2009\/03\/24\/morning-song\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Morning Song&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}