{"id":26068,"date":"1980-12-21T18:01:06","date_gmt":"1980-12-21T18:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26068"},"modified":"2013-07-09T16:39:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T15:39:58","slug":"marjorie-cole-interacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26068","title":{"rendered":"Marjorie Cole &#8211; Interacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0<a title=\"Bohemia Bouquet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=25494\"><em>Bohemian Bouquet<\/em><\/a>, published 1980 by The Bohemians.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interacts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The kitchen is full of light and sound<\/p>\n<p>Insistent phone rings \u2013 I go running<\/p>\n<p>My son it is, reminding us there\u2019s an eclipse<\/p>\n<p>Go out and look he is saying &#8211; \/of the moon<\/p>\n<p>What! \u2013 with the Leeds piano competitors playing! \u2013<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So we leave the house untended with all light<\/p>\n<p>And from the dark gaze up \/blazing<\/p>\n<p>At the depleted night queen, pinned by shadow<\/p>\n<p>Almost applied now, only a crescent persisting.<\/p>\n<p>Tutored in present science, we are none the less<\/p>\n<p>Awed, though more briefly than our ancient kin<\/p>\n<p>Undoubtedly would have been.<\/p>\n<p>Going soon indoors, we leave the moon calm<\/p>\n<p>In her temporary scene<\/p>\n<p>And resume exciting entertainment<\/p>\n<p>On the television screen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Later, when we had thought to sleep,<\/p>\n<p>The bright disc fully recovered from belittlement<\/p>\n<p>Supreme and militant-seeming<\/p>\n<p>Strongly confronts my window, overpowering<\/p>\n<p>The protective curtains,<\/p>\n<p>Making me toss in a sleepless sea.<\/p>\n<p>At last, reluctantly<\/p>\n<p>I take a brown glass bottle from its niche<\/p>\n<p>Tip into my hand a score of<\/p>\n<p>Little white moons, full circles they<\/p>\n<p>All but one, which had suffered encroachment<\/p>\n<p>Of a past wakeful night\u2019s consuming<\/p>\n<p>Remaining half phased.<\/p>\n<p>I select and swallow this remnant, rather ashamed \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Now celestial boat, terrestrial sleeper ply<\/p>\n<p>Each an appropriate sky.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marjorie Cole<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0Bohemian Bouquet, published 1980 by The Bohemians. &nbsp; Interacts The kitchen is full of light and sound Insistent phone rings \u2013 I go running My son it is, reminding us there\u2019s an eclipse Go out and look he is saying -&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26068\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[243,109],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26068"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26068"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26072,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26068\/revisions\/26072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}