blackbirds drinking
\nin the haze of summer
\nfrom dog bowls
\nand sprinklered puddles<\/p>\n
gulls spiralling in updrafts
\nabove the melting roads
\nfeeding on clouds
\nof winged ants<\/p>\n
and in the gardens
\neveryone
\ndead in the sun<\/p>\n
__________<\/p>\n
Notes:<\/p>\n
1. Written on 23rd July, 2019<\/em> Butterflies locked blackbirds drinking in the haze of summer from dog bowls and sprinklered puddles gulls spiralling in updrafts above the melting roads feeding on clouds of winged ants and in the gardens everyone dead in the sun __________ Notes: 1. Written on 23rd July, 2019 2. And also originally it had an extra verse 3. That […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[119,289,709,191],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ephemera","tag-ephemera","tag-hot","tag-isnt-it","tag-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. And also originally it had an extra verse<\/em>
\n3. That read:<\/em><\/p>\n
\nin their helical dance
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