{"id":6393,"date":"2021-01-29T17:58:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T17:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=6393"},"modified":"2021-01-29T17:59:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T17:59:28","slug":"blue-sheet-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/29\/blue-sheet-dawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Sheet Dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I could be anywhere in the world as I am much travelled<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But I find myself in a small room in Deal<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watching the dawn break over the sea<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its canvas is illuminated but it still retains the velvet darkness of the night<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have been reading\u00a0<em>The Drifters\u00a0<\/em>by James A Michener as I have done since its publication in 1971<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My latest copy is a tired paperback which I can just see in the half light<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its is often said that I am the last one who is still travelling<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But I often stop and sow roots<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have a home in Israel<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where my children were raised after their mother overdosed<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They both live in this house and teach in Tel Aviv<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A jet is crossing the sky leaving a vapour train in its wake<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am ignorant of its destination<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But can see myself looking down on Deal<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As it disappears gradually from view<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could be anywhere in the world as I am much travelled But I find myself in a small room in Deal Watching the dawn break over the sea Its canvas is illuminated but it still retains the velvet darkness of the night I have been reading\u00a0The Drifters\u00a0by James A Michener as I have done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6393"}],"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=6393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}