{"id":83,"date":"2022-02-01T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/?p=83"},"modified":"2022-12-01T12:00:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T18:00:14","slug":"woven-in-silken-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/poetry\/woven-in-silken-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"woven in silken sky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Ilma Qureshi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>when a koel, or shall we say, a cuckoo,<br>lets out a song<br>the day folds, decidedly,&nbsp;<br>like a teenager<br>rolling up sleeves<br>in the heat of July<br>then, glistening like a water crystal<br>a sharp clarity descends on me;<br>the world will go on<br>in its infinite, shimmery beauty<br>after i am gone<br>can I trust such a world?<br>what then, shall my gait be?<br>shall i wear my trousers rolled?<br>shall i stop<br>to look at the ant &nbsp;<br>that carries a sack thicker than frail legs<br>or the bird<br>that goes home with empty-pockets<br>and yet glides with a certain flair,<br>shining; like a crescent&nbsp;<br>woven in the silken sky<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Poetry South 13, 2021, pg. 11<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ilma Qureshi when a koel, or shall we say, a cuckoo,lets out a songthe day folds, decidedly,&nbsp;like a teenagerrolling up sleevesin the heat of Julythen, glistening like a water crystala [&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-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","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=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}