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Around Us<\/p>\n
We need some pines to assuage the darkness<\/em> -Marvin Bell<\/p>\n I have to admit, I wanted to go on strike today. But I’ve come this far so I need to power through. I found this picture of a turkey feather from a walk in Lithia Park back in September. I searched and hunted and hunted and searched for a poem to go with it. I finally said just let me find something I like and went into the November pages of my 365 poems for every occaision<\/em> book. I started at the end of the month and worked back and this was the first one that resonated. And it spoke of a wild thing so it seemed appropriate enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Around Us We need some pines to assuage the darkness when it blankets the mind, we need a silvery stream that banks as smoothly as a plane\u2019s wing, and a worn bed of needles to pad the rumble that fills the mind, and a blur or two of a wild thing that sees and is … Continue reading Day 74 – Turkey Feather<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autumn","category-birds","category-nature"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n when it blankets the mind,<\/em>
\n we need a silvery stream that banks as smoothly<\/em>
\n as a plane\u2019s wing, and a worn bed of<\/em>
\n needles to pad the rumble that fills the mind,<\/em>
\n and a blur or two of a wild thing<\/em>
\n that sees and is not seen. We need these things<\/em>
\n between appointments, after work,<\/em>
\n and, if we keep them, then someone someday,<\/em>
\n lying down after a walk<\/em>
\n and supper, with the fire hole wet down,<\/em>
\n the whole night sky set at a particular<\/em>
\n time, without numbers or hours, will cause<\/em>
\n a little sound of thanks–a zipper or a snap–<\/em>
\n to close round the moment and the thought<\/em>
\n of whatever good we did.<\/em><\/p>\n