{"id":9182,"date":"2014-12-01T01:30:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T06:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=9182"},"modified":"2015-02-13T15:28:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T21:28:03","slug":"maureen-seaton-boulder-sonnet-with-crickets-and-buddha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/9182","title":{"rendered":"Boulder Sonnet, with Crickets and Buddha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve never seen the words <em>fucking crickets<\/em><br \/>\nin a poem before, have you? <em>Creak creak<br \/>\nscritch creak<\/em>. Buddha soaks up sun beside me<br \/>\nwhile the crickets scratch religiously. (How<br \/>\ndoes he do it?) A bee strolls along his<br \/>\nlotused leg and the crickets go silent<br \/>\nfor one brief second between chirps: a mad<br \/>\ncaesura. Now rabbits run by, grinning<br \/>\nwith rabbit fever, the little snipers.<br \/>\nBunnies at Halloween? Isn\u2019t that like<br \/>\ngourds at Easter? Our boisterous bugs seem<br \/>\nsummoned by a silence that longs to be filled\u2014<br \/>\nlike the silence before these words. Aspens<br \/>\nturn deftly to yellow light. Buddha\u2019s back\u2019s<br \/>\nso still, you could write a poem on it. <\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/8941\">Maureen Seaton<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve never seen the words fucking crickets in a poem before, have you? Creak creak scritch creak. Buddha soaks up sun beside me while the crickets scratch religiously. (How does he do it?) A bee strolls along his lotused leg and the crickets go silent for one brief second between chirps: a mad caesura. Now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-2o6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10157,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182\/revisions\/10157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}