{"id":1790,"date":"2016-03-16T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T04:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:52","slug":"march-16-immigrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/03\/16\/march-16-immigrant\/","title":{"rendered":"March 16  -&gt;  &#8220;Immigrant&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wednesday March 16 &#8211;\u00a0&#8220;her real name was \u00a0&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &gt; \u00a0Silvia: \u00a0S-i-l-v-i-a\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many poems are brief, offering layers of experience waiting to be noticed on 2nd or 3rd reading. \u00a0I found this poem during my first look at a book, new to me and sent by a Boston friend.\u00a0 From some clues in the surrounding pages, I conclude that Silvia was the poet\u2019s Irish immigrant mother (1938-2003). \u00a0 She inhabits this poem \u00a0as a tender enduring presence and as one who lost her name in her early immigrant experience and only told while she died.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s short; best read out loud, with pauses.<\/p>\n<p>Have a blest day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s post<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cImmigrant\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In those last hours<br \/>\nshe told us<br \/>\nher real name was<br \/>\nSilvia: \u00a0\u00a0S-i-l-v-i-a<\/p>\n<p>Her father<br \/>\nchanged it to<br \/>\nSylvia: \u00a0S-y-l-v-i-a<\/p>\n<p>for the teachers<br \/>\nwhen she<br \/>\nwent to school.<\/p>\n<p><u>Sacred Spaces, Sacred Places<\/u>\u00a0Story<br \/>\nPoems by John N. McPhee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday March 16 &#8211;\u00a0&#8220;her real name was \u00a0&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &gt; \u00a0Silvia: \u00a0S-i-l-v-i-a\u201d Many poems are brief, offering layers of experience waiting to be noticed on 2nd or 3rd reading. \u00a0I found this poem during my first look at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/03\/16\/march-16-immigrant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1791,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions\/1791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}