{"id":10440,"date":"2022-04-09T20:38:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T19:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=10440"},"modified":"2022-04-09T20:42:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T19:42:26","slug":"rowing-in-eden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/09\/rowing-in-eden\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowing in Eden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Might I but moor in thee tonight<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What does that mean<\/p>\n<p>I have broken a line of an<\/p>\n<p>Emily Dickinson poem<\/p>\n<p>It sounds both sexual and dreamlike<\/p>\n<p>At the same time<\/p>\n<p>You moor your boat<\/p>\n<p>But the question is<\/p>\n<p><em>Might I but moor in thee tonight<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Which might mean an act of lovemaking<\/p>\n<p>Or that you might be secure in my arms<\/p>\n<p>Moors were also people from the Maghreb<\/p>\n<p>The Iberian Peninsula and elsewhere<\/p>\n<p>A moor is an uncultivated upland<\/p>\n<p>A moor is many things<\/p>\n<p>Yet I am aware that in these days of plague<\/p>\n<p>That you are at last returning<\/p>\n<p>To our central bed<\/p>\n<p>After a period in a distant room<\/p>\n<p>And that is enough for me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>From Letter to Jane (2022)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Might I but moor in thee tonight What does that mean I have broken a line of an Emily Dickinson poem It sounds both sexual and dreamlike At the same time You moor your boat But the question is Might I but moor in thee tonight Which might mean an act of lovemaking Or that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10440"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10444,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10440\/revisions\/10444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}