{"id":77,"date":"2020-06-01T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/?p=77"},"modified":"2022-12-01T11:55:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T17:55:36","slug":"revelation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/poetry\/revelation\/","title":{"rendered":"Revelation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Claude Wilkinson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is it you\u2019ve looked at&nbsp;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; that quickened your next breaths,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>left you beholden, stunned&nbsp;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;with its essence in the earth:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>perhaps an ungainly buzzard,&nbsp;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;of all things, unafraid and staying&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>high on the wing while buffeted&nbsp;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;about like a plume of soot<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>against rolling storm clouds;&nbsp;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;that glittering carp swum&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>from its cover of amber water,&nbsp;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;flashing now and then&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>along the clear shallow,&nbsp;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;so at home even without our air;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>symbios is made flesh&nbsp;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;as morning\u2019s white herons<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>shop a low river&nbsp;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;and fringes of swamp pink;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or, just making their flight into open field&nbsp;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;beneath November\u2019s yellow canopy,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the suite of honey-colored, tined,&nbsp;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;rut-ready bucks&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>glimpsed through the lens&nbsp;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;of such golden noon light?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Issue 11, 2019, pg. 10<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claude Wilkinson What is it you\u2019ve looked at&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; that quickened your next breaths, left you beholden, stunned&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;with its essence in [&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-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","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=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}