{"id":1447,"date":"2017-05-24T10:23:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T14:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newplum\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2025-02-28T07:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T12:52:19","slug":"forest-from-the-night-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/forest-from-the-night-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest from the Night Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0for Les<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The wood is entered from a settled place,<br \/>\nits darkness a murmur that hangs<br \/>\nlike threads of time, vines indescribably local<br \/>\nyet never seen before. A pond, perhaps vernal,<br \/>\nseems to hold everything I do not know.<br \/>\nNearby, an old dwelling without<br \/>\nits history, simply speaking of itself now,<br \/>\nits rotten boards evolving as the trees evolve,<br \/>\ngrowing purposeful, always dying.<br \/>\nI could live here, I think,<br \/>\nin this mysterious expression of myself<br \/>\nwhere he and I have already assembled<br \/>\na lifetime, something consonant<br \/>\nwith the untold depth of the pond,<br \/>\nwith what filters through the canopy<br \/>\nalive with that dappled hint<br \/>\nof the light we both know<br \/>\nwe have always been made of.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0for Les The wood is entered from a settled place, its darkness a murmur that hangs like threads of time, vines indescribably local yet never seen before. A pond, perhaps vernal, seems to hold everything I do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/forest-from-the-night-before\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Forest from the Night Before<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":1450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"issue":[6871],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","issue-6871"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-25 05:31:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}