{"id":1533,"date":"2021-04-18T10:39:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T18:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2021-04-18T10:39:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T18:39:09","slug":"prayer-on-the-edge-of-the-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1533","title":{"rendered":"Prayer on the edge of the morning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">For the slow stretch of highway under slight stars\nthe frames that hold lost fathers, black and white sisters.\n\nFor the chives, weeping in the garden,\nyellow and wet with the burrowing season.\n\nFor the red squirrel who chatters after nuts\nand follows my back with his eye.\n\nFor the sprinters, the joggers\nthe dog walkers, for all the movers of America\n\ngoing always home, going with no more meaning\nthan the sounds given from one foot to another,\n\nwith no more intent than to move.\u00a0\u00a0\nLet the jet stream carry my prayers.\n\nLet the prayer be for the grey\nthat eases between the limbs of the trees,\n\nthat brushes my house in the unspent morning,\nfor the riotous waves dissolving on the shore.\n\nLet the prayer be for all the shadows that slip\nbetween us, for the words we do not say\n\nfor the thoughts that we hold like lit cigarettes,\ndangling from our mouths, drop and crush.\n\nCafe Review\nSpring 2017<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the slow stretch of highway under slight stars the frames that hold lost fathers, black and white sisters. For the chives, weeping in the garden, yellow and wet with the burrowing season. For the red squirrel who chatters after nuts and follows my back with his eye. For the sprinters, the joggers the dog &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1533\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prayer on the edge of the morning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1534,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions\/1534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}