{"id":1558,"date":"2016-08-23T17:21:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T17:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2020-10-09T23:15:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T23:15:30","slug":"after-goldsworthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/23\/after-goldsworthy\/","title":{"rendered":"After Goldsworthy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/jose-luis-gutierrez\/\">Jos\u00e9 Luis Guti\u00e9rrez<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>He lies down and lets the rain<br>silhouette his form on the moist earth.<\/p><p>This is worship of a different order<br>bleeding stones to dye a river red.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<!--more Show More-->\n<!--noteaser-->\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/jose-luis-gutierrez\/\">Jos\u00e9 Luis Guti\u00e9rrez<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He lies down and lets the rain<br>silhouette his form on the moist earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is worship of a different order<br>bleeding stones to dye a river red.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The calendar is a snake scaled with<br>leaves flowing the long season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To kiss the mind of winter throw snowballs<br>blown into wraiths by the wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Black holes staring from cairns and trees<br>invite the color of flaming rowan leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With naked hands forge ice into stars<br>to constellate the day&#8217;s radiance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stone walls herd clouds of sheep<br>across history&#8217;s green acres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their wooliness a siege engine<br>of implacable fury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a9\u00a0Copyright 2016 <a href=\"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/jose-luis-gutierrez\/\">Jos\u00e9 Luis Guti\u00e9rrez<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image round-img is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/jose_luis_guiterrez-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5159\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Luis Guti\u00e9rrez is a San Francisco-based poet. His work has appeared in Eratio, Scythe, Margie, Poemeleon, DMQ, Jetfuel and is forthcoming in Caliban and Kestrel, among others. His first book of poems, A World Less Away, was published&nbsp;in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Jos&eacute; Luis Guti&eacute;rrez He lies down and lets the rainsilhouette his form on the moist earth. This is worship of a different orderbleeding stones to dye a river red.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5213,"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/5213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}