{"id":37516,"date":"2024-12-08T13:01:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T21:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/?p=37516"},"modified":"2025-02-07T12:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:51:18","slug":"one-poem-by-richard-robbins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/one-poem-by-richard-robbins\/","title":{"rendered":"One Poem by Richard Robbins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-edfd9c65\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-758dd595\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-9aa8b6c5\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-9aa8b6c5\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2024\/10\/94-front.png\" alt=\"Issue 94\" class=\"wp-image-36418\" title=\"issue681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2024\/10\/94-front.png 354w, https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2024\/10\/94-front-199x300.png 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-9744b4d8 gb-headline-text\"><strong>Found in&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/willow-springs-issue-no-94\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/willow-springs-issue-no-94\/\">Willow Springs 94<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-671985e9 gb-headline-text\"><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-71db3465\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-71db3465\">\n\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-37516-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2024\/12\/RobbinsLFTMinAnotherCountry.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2024\/12\/RobbinsLFTMinAnotherCountry.mp3\">https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2024\/12\/RobbinsLFTMinAnotherCountry.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-9e54f922 gb-headline-text\">Looking for the Man in Another Country<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe he steps from the Tube and climbs toward the light.<br>Maybe leaving the underworld he hands a coin to a woman<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;weeping at the door.<br>Maybe he revels after the football club wins. Maybe he parades<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;with others through the centuries-old cemetery, singing the<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;team anthem.<br>Maybe he sees the wild one walking down the middle of Bayswater<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Road shouting I hate this fucking country. Let me die.<br>Maybe he feeds the swans near the palace where a beloved<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;princess used to live.<br>Maybe at the caf\u00e9 he squints in unfamiliar sun, opens up his<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;newspaper to find the shadow of his head inside. The shadow<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;moves like a cloud across the stories of the day.<br>Maybe his head makes the only weather. The right levers might<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;control the wind, he thinks. Maybe the rain.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":41002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-issue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37516"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38842,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37516\/revisions\/38842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}