{"id":2090,"date":"2025-04-25T13:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T17:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newplum\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2025-04-25T13:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T17:54:09","slug":"the-sky-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/the-sky-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"the sky \u2014 the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emily \u2013 now I get it \u2013 no psychology here<br \/>\nno diagnosis \u2013 no problem of the mind.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s eggs and flour<br \/>\nthe call to rise \u2013 the call to write<br \/>\nbefore the hemlock\u2019s longest shade.<\/p>\n<p>We close the gate \u2013 latch the door<br \/>\nplan a meal for two alone \u2013 melt the chocolate<br \/>\nthank the bee for every<br \/>\nsweet and golden thing \u2013<br \/>\nwe save our lives.<\/p>\n<p>We circle the table<br \/>\nthe garden \u2013<br \/>\nthe neighborhood.<br \/>\nWe keep safe distance between<br \/>\nus and them and dread.<\/p>\n<p>We walk to feel rhythm in the knees<br \/>\nthe swinging arms \u2013 the hand wave.<br \/>\nWe walk to shout out to neighbors \u2013<br \/>\nHow are you?<br \/>\nHow are you?<br \/>\nHow are you?<\/p>\n<p>In the kitchen the dough grows high and wide<br \/>\nbeneath checkered cloth<br \/>\nshaping itself in silent satisfaction.<br \/>\nAir fills with scent of gratitude.<br \/>\nWhen we cook \u2013 we are alive.<\/p>\n<p>I mark the round loaf with knived crosses<br \/>\nput it into the red heat. Outside \u2013 a thousand<br \/>\nstarlings in flight shape-shift into ribbons<br \/>\ncoiled and uncoiled \u2013 their winged murmuration \u2013<br \/>\ntheir black urgency. Today the sky will not fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily \u2013 now I get it \u2013 no psychology here no diagnosis \u2013 no problem of the mind. It\u2019s eggs and flour the call to rise \u2013 the call to write before the hemlock\u2019s longest shade. We close the gate \u2013 latch the door plan a meal for two alone \u2013 melt the chocolate thank &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/the-sky-the-sky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the sky \u2014 the sky<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"issue":[6876],"class_list":["post-2090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","issue-6876"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 01:34:18","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\/2090","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}