{"id":3722,"date":"2020-12-16T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/?p=3722"},"modified":"2020-12-16T14:51:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T19:51:21","slug":"wednesday-december-16-two-dancing-starlings-william-carlos-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2020\/12\/16\/wednesday-december-16-two-dancing-starlings-william-carlos-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday &#8211;  December 16   Two dancing Starlings &#8211; William Carlos Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes joy after grief awakens slowly,<br \/>\nfilled with stillness and soft footsteps.<br \/>\nSometimes joy after grief runs so hard<br \/>\nit messes your hair and makes you giddy.<\/p>\n<p>This winter morning teases us here on The McNichols Campus, snow so light you can hardly know it\u2019s there outside our windows. \u00a0 Lots of strong Final Exam Essays (the exam question: \u00a0\u201cTell me a good story and tell me why you call your story GOOD.\u201d) \u00a0 Students reveal their courage when they sift their memories and listen to what their memories tell them.<\/p>\n<p>Have a blest Wednesday,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post:\u00a0 The 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!<\/p>\n<p>that\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\/2020\/07\/William-Carlos-Williams.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3574\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2020\/07\/William-Carlos-Williams.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>William Carlos Williams<br \/>\nSeptember 17, 1883 \u2013 March 4, 1963<br \/>\n<u><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Carlos_Williams\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Carlos_Williams<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes joy after grief awakens slowly, filled with stillness and soft footsteps. Sometimes joy after grief runs so hard it messes your hair and makes you giddy. This winter morning teases us here on The McNichols Campus, snow so light &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2020\/12\/16\/wednesday-december-16-two-dancing-starlings-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\/3722"}],"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=3722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3724,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions\/3724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}