{"id":340,"date":"2010-11-19T22:49:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=340"},"modified":"2010-11-19T22:49:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:49:39","slug":"mary-oliver-the-swan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/340\/poems\/mary-oliver-the-swan\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Oliver &#8211; The Swan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river?<br \/>\nDid you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air &#8211;<br \/>\nAn armful of white blossoms,<br \/>\nA perfect commotion of silk and linen as it leaned<br \/>\ninto the bondage of its wings; a snowbank, a bank of lilies,<br \/>\nBiting the air with its black beak?<br \/>\nDid you hear it, fluting and whistling<br \/>\nA shrill dark music &#8211; like the rain pelting the trees &#8211; like a waterfall<br \/>\nKnifing down the black ledges?<br \/>\nAnd did you see it, finally, just under the clouds &#8211;<br \/>\nA white cross Streaming across the sky, its feet<br \/>\nLike black leaves, its wings Like the stretching light of the river?<br \/>\n<em>And did you feel it, in your heart, how it pertained to everything?<br \/>\nAnd have you too finally figured out what beauty is for?<br \/>\nAnd have you changed your life?<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river? Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air &#8211; An armful of white blossoms, A perfect commotion of silk and linen as it leaned into the bondage of its wings; a snowbank, a bank of lilies, Biting the air <a href='https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/340\/poems\/mary-oliver-the-swan\/' 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":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}