{"id":1560,"date":"2021-04-24T08:55:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T16:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2021-04-24T08:55:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T16:55:33","slug":"beyond-the-final-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1560","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Final Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Books form cliffs. We fall\ninto wanton characters\u2019 arms.\n\nNothing holds us. Just whispers. Whims.\nEach page turn, turns us into someone\n\ndissolute. The author tells us we carry\na nest of laundry. We finger undone buttons.\n\nI found the unexpected villain at the end.\nA valley with trees tumbling down the sides. A gate\n\nruined. A gauntlet of afternoon light, a woolly ruff of heat,\nstone-faced cats and rusty bikes.\n\nWhen he came to me, I followed him, through\nmurmuring air, the wet suck of summer.\n\nNow I wish for turbulence\u2014disturbing,\u00a0\nevocative. It rattles in the gravel\n\na broken tube of nickels.\n\n\nAsheville Poetry Journal\nDecember 2017<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books form cliffs. We fall into wanton characters\u2019 arms. Nothing holds us. Just whispers. Whims. Each page turn, turns us into someone dissolute. The author tells us we carry a nest of laundry. We finger undone buttons. I found the unexpected villain at the end. A valley with trees tumbling down the sides. A gate &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1560\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beyond the Final Chapter&#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-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","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=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}