We are working in boxes stacked up on wire, pulling our eyes closer together.
\nI\u2019m writing you to confess to my failures as I brew in the cracked tea pot on the window sill,
\nTeetering between the snow and a steamy room with two moon faces.
\nLet\u2019s have a carpet rolled out between us, a buffer on life, glimpses of gypsies and mice with feet balled up and stuck.
\nToday wasn\u2019t a strain on our skin, but instead a wander into bogs and still brooks and connections made on limp string, wrapped and wound so tight around our fingers that they\u2019ve begun to blend in with the melting sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We are working in boxes stacked up on wire, pulling our eyes closer together. I\u2019m writing you to confess to my failures as I brew in the cracked tea pot on the window sill, Teetering between the snow and a steamy room with two moon faces. Let\u2019s have a carpet rolled out between us, a … Continue reading Contemplations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":1467,"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-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","issue-6871"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-25 04:32:03","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\/1466","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=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}