{"id":35,"date":"2018-04-01T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/?p=35"},"modified":"2022-12-01T10:55:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T16:55:38","slug":"easter-portrait-1964-father-to-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/poetry\/easter-portrait-1964-father-to-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Portrait, 1964 (Father to Son)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>C. W. Emerson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hold the snapshot<br>close to the lamp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The print is faded, sepia-toned;<br>only hints of color remain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You were three years old,<br>and dressed for Easter \u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>shorts and knee socks,<br>sport coat, cap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are handing me a crocus.<br>I bend to receive it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am your father, twenty-five,<br>and you, my eldest son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your grandmother\u2019s garden<br>is glazed with light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I look up<br>from my hospital bed,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>hoping for a glimpse<br>of Carolina moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My night-sky rider,<br>sweet&nbsp;bantling boy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>how far have you come<br>for this vigil \u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and what have I done<br>to deserve you so<br>near?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Issue 9, 2017, pg. 41<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C. W. Emerson I hold the snapshotclose to the lamp. The print is faded, sepia-toned;only hints of color remain. You were three years old,and dressed for Easter \u2014 shorts and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}