{"id":994,"date":"2013-12-31T16:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T21:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=994"},"modified":"2013-09-10T14:54:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T18:54:19","slug":"kenneth-patchen-at-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2013\/994\/poems\/kenneth-patchen-at-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Patchen: At the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>In the shape of this night, in the still fall<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 of snow, Father<\/div>\n<div>In all that is cold and tiny, these little birds<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 and children<\/div>\n<div>In everything that moves tonight, the trolleys<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 and the lovers, Father<\/div>\n<div>In the great hush of country, in the ugly noise<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 of our cities<\/div>\n<div>In this deep throw of stars, in those trenches<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 where the dead are, Father<\/div>\n<div>In all the wide land waiting, and in the liners<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 out on the black water<\/div>\n<div>In all that has been said bravely, in all that is<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 mean anywhere in the world, Father<\/div>\n<div>In all that is good and lovely, in every house<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 where sham and hatred are<\/div>\n<div>In the name of those who wait, in the sound<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 of angry voices, Father<\/div>\n<div>Before the bells ring, before this little point in time<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 has rushed us on<\/div>\n<div>Before this clean moment has gone, before this night<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 turns to face tomorrow, Father<\/div>\n<div>There is this high singing in the air<\/div>\n<div>Forever this sorrowful human face in eternity\u2019s window<\/div>\n<div>And there are other bells that we would ring, Father<\/div>\n<div>Other bells that we would ring.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the shape of this night, in the still fall \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 of snow, Father In all that is cold and tiny, these little birds \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 and children In everything that moves tonight, the trolleys \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 and the lovers, Father In the great hush of country, in the ugly noise \u00a0 <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2013\/994\/poems\/kenneth-patchen-at-the-new-year\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[245],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-other-bells-and-possibilities","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}