{"id":1391,"date":"2012-02-22T11:38:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T15:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2012-02-22T11:38:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T15:38:31","slug":"front-page-by-gillian-clarke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/front-page-by-gillian-clarke\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Page by Gillian Clarke"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the chapbook “Making the Beds for the Dead”<\/em><\/p>\n

Front Page<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s the photograph that does it.
\nA man howling for his child.
\nYou can’t forget it
\ndespite a let up in the rain,
\nsunlight on a river,
\na flight of geese over an estuary.
\nIt’s a rucksack of sorrow
\non your shoulder, on your mind.<\/p>\n

Try leaving it on the platform
\nto be defused like a suspect package.
\nTry leaving it on the train,
\npersonal belongings
\nthey remind you to take.
\nTry to lose, bin, burn it,
\nindestructible as polythene
\nof flowers in a filthy stairwell.<\/p>\n

Maybe just this once
\nwe should forego the minute’s silence.
\nMaybe this time, in supermarket,
\nstreet and school and public square,
\nstudio, station, stadium,
\nstanding together, eyes closed,
\nwe should throw back our heads
\nfor a one minute howl.<\/p>\n

Carcanet Press<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from the chapbook “Making the Beds for the Dead” Front Page It’s the photograph that does it. A man howling for his child. You can’t forget it despite a let up in the rain, sunlight on a river, a flight of geese over an estuary. It’s a rucksack of sorrow on your shoulder, on your … Continue reading “Front Page by Gillian Clarke”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}