{"id":2843,"date":"2018-12-14T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2843"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:45:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:45:04","slug":"dec-14-two-starlings-dancing-a-summer-poem-blooming-in-december-like-a-daffodil-in-a-snow-drift-william-carlos-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2018\/12\/14\/dec-14-two-starlings-dancing-a-summer-poem-blooming-in-december-like-a-daffodil-in-a-snow-drift-william-carlos-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"dec 14 &#8220;two starlings dancing&#8221; a summer poem blooming in December, like a daffodil in a snow drift    William Carlos Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, December 14<br \/>\n\u201cthat\u2019s what got me to face into the wind\u2019s teeth\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I woke this morning with a taste of joy on my tongue, that despite a gaggle of angry news competing for time as we work our commitments. \u00a0Sometimes joy after grief awakens slowly, filled with stillness and soft footsteps. \u00a0Sometimes joy after grief runs so hard it messes your hair and makes you giddy. \u00a0Today\u2019s poem is that 2nd kind of joy. \u00a0Whenever I hear what William Carlos Williams has pulled out of his magic poet\u2019s bag; I cannot help repeating it.<\/p>\n<p>Try it for this mid-day in final exam week on McNichols, a poem so short, so improbable, \u00a0bringing two starlings into my imagination, alive and dancing. \u00a0Maybe he will surprise you too. \u00a0 \u00a0Short poems work best when read slowly and with pauses &amp; repeated at least once.<\/p>\n<p>Have a blest weekend at the end of the 2nd Week of Advent.<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post: \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The Manoeuvre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I saw the two starlings<br \/>\ncoming in toward the wires<br \/>\nBut at the last,<br \/>\njust before alighting, they<\/p>\n<p>turned in the air together<br \/>\nand landed backwards!<br \/>\nthat\u2019s what got me \u2014<br \/>\nto face into the wind\u2019s teeth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/04\/William-Carlos-Williams.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-453\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/04\/William-Carlos-Williams.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>William Carlos Williams<br \/>\nSeptember 17, 1883 \u2013 March 4, 1963<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Carlos_Williams\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Carlos_Williams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, December 14 \u201cthat\u2019s what got me to face into the wind\u2019s teeth\u201d I woke this morning with a taste of joy on my tongue, that despite a gaggle of angry news competing for time as we work our commitments. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2018\/12\/14\/dec-14-two-starlings-dancing-a-summer-poem-blooming-in-december-like-a-daffodil-in-a-snow-drift-william-carlos-williams\/\">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\/2843"}],"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=2843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2845,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions\/2845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}