{"id":547,"date":"2009-04-13T16:14:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T16:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=547"},"modified":"2022-01-18T11:45:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T11:45:16","slug":"poem-the-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/poem-the-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem:  The Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This poem, <em>The Hours<\/em>, is by Australian poet Aidan Coleman, whom I thank for his permission to post this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Evenings I get nothing done.<br \/>\nThe late night ads hunt in packs.&nbsp; I stay up.<br \/>\nThe clack, clack, clack of the fan. The hours.<br \/>\nAnd there all the time, prayer:<br \/>\nthe pool I sit beside,<br \/>\nthe cool of every drink and shadow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>References:<\/em><br \/>\nAidan Coleman [2005]:&nbsp; <em>Avenues and Runways<\/em>.&nbsp; Australia: Brandl &amp; Schlesinger Poetry.<br \/>\nSome more poems by Aidan Coleman can be found in an ABC Radio National podcast, &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/rn\/poetica\/features\/pod\/poets\/genxy.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nPrevious poetry posts&nbsp;can found be <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/category\/poetry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poem, The Hours, is by Australian poet Aidan Coleman, whom I thank for his permission to post this: Evenings I get nothing done. The late night ads hunt in packs.&nbsp; I stay up. The clack, clack, clack of the fan. The hours. And there all the time, prayer: the pool I sit beside, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","p1","y2009","m04","d13","h16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10486,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/10486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}