{"id":1690,"date":"2012-04-27T15:33:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T21:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/1690\/"},"modified":"2013-04-23T23:00:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T05:00:35","slug":"slumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/2011-a-virtual-chapbook\/slumber\/","title":{"rendered":"slumber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>at night<br \/>\nthe wolves wait<br \/>\non my temples<br \/>\nfor the elk to venture<br \/>\nfrom my sparse hairline<br \/>\nonto my forehead<\/p>\n<p>instantly, the pack pursues the herd<br \/>\nsome escape into the thicket of my eyebrows<br \/>\nas the rest charge across<br \/>\nthe curve of my cheek<br \/>\nlonging for the forest of my beard<\/p>\n<p>I sleep through the slaughter<br \/>\non my jaw<br \/>\nsoothed by the steady snores<br \/>\nof slumbering bears<br \/>\nin the caves of my ears <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p>\n<p><small>10\/12\/2004<\/small><\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to Merri for &#8216;slumbering.&#8217;)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Listen to <a href='http:\/\/www.mjhinton.net\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/slumber.mp3' class=\"wpaudio\">Slumber<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/my-virtual-chapbook\/\">My Virtual Chapbook<\/a> (table of contents)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>at night the wolves wait on my temples for the elk to venture from my sparse hairline onto my forehead instantly, the pack pursues the herd some escape into the thicket of my eyebrows as the rest charge across the curve of my cheek longing for the forest of my beard I sleep through the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/2011-a-virtual-chapbook\/slumber\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">slumber<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[85,162,86,87,72,81,84],"class_list":["post-1690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-a-virtual-chapbook","tag-bears","tag-dreams","tag-elk","tag-macro","tag-nature","tag-sleep","tag-wolves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6145,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions\/6145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}