{"id":295684,"date":"2019-03-19T06:05:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T20:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=295684"},"modified":"2019-03-19T06:05:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T20:05:56","slug":"equinoxial-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/equinoxial-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Equinoxial Perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paralysis, Persistence, Progress<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the ground in a frozen land of mud and dirt<br \/>\nthose who chose hibernation near the surface<br \/>\nearthworms slowly come out of relative paralysis<br \/>\nsucking in muddy earth churned by footprints<br \/>\npersisting and surfacing into warm sunlight<br \/>\nonly to have their struggles seen from a<br \/>\nbirds eye perspective view from the barn<br \/>\nor any number of nearby budding treetops<br \/>\nbirds sweep down before the worms escape<br \/>\nworms provide breakfast for her three fledglings<br \/>\nthey open their mouths with mute begging<br \/>\nmother provides them with juicy worm segments<br \/>\nfrom the bird mother\u2019s perspective life continues<br \/>\nfrom worm\u2019s segmented existence more sediment.<\/p>\n<p>a boy shoots a few ducks and shore birds along<br \/>\nthe pond and river nearby his home in the valley<br \/>\na meager meal for his two brothers and sisters<br \/>\nMother makes some hearty cornmeal pancakes<br \/>\ndelicious smothered with blackstrap molasses<br \/>\nthey have hot cups of cocoa late that afternoon<br \/>\nwith saltine crackers and peanut butter on top<br \/>\nDaddy brings a spring buck deer into the basement<br \/>\nspills its guts open filling the room with pine needle<br \/>\nscent from its last hillside forest meal out back<br \/>\nI take the hot deer liver upstairs to my mother<br \/>\nshe cuts it into half inch slices dredges it in flour<br \/>\nfries it in hot bacon grease in a cast iron skillet<br \/>\nits gone within an hour of coming into the house.<br \/>\nSpring comes to northern Appalachia in early March<br \/>\nthroughout the Allegheny Plateau trees are red in bud.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Writes of Spring: Forward March<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Rainer Maria Rilke, born Prague 1875, died Montreux 1926<\/p>\n<p>The Ides of March has Caesar salad as a daily lunch special<br \/>\nThe rides of March have rabbits hopping down the bunny trail<br \/>\nDuring glides in March fruit bats come home late to hang out<br \/>\nMarch finds worms covering holes with their own excrement<br \/>\nThe tides of March reveal many sea cucumbers on the beach<br \/>\nThe bona fides of March always has Spring growth on the menu<br \/>\nStravinski\u2019s Rite of Spring is a ballet about the creativity of Spring<br \/>\nThe sights of Spring sooth many sore eyes tired of dark Winter<br \/>\nThe rights of Spring bring green growth and life over natural death<br \/>\nMany nights of Spring bring cool temperatures and misty mornings<br \/>\nThe delights of Spring bring wildflower blooms in desert places<br \/>\nThe fights of Spring are eternal between budding growth and frost<br \/>\nThe mights of Spring are manifested by flora bursting from earth<br \/>\nThe plights of Spring bring its demise as warm days bring Summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paralysis, Persistence, Progress In the ground in a frozen land of mud and dirt those&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}