{"id":2376,"date":"2019-09-06T16:15:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2019-09-06T16:18:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:18:45","slug":"4-3-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2019\/09\/06\/4-3-4-2\/","title":{"rendered":"4\/3\/4 (#2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

some more poems
\nall written
\nin 4\/3\/4<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#27: night sky #1<\/strong><\/p>\n

beneath the stars
\non my back
\nI lay weeping<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#28: night sky #2<\/strong><\/p>\n

A near full moon
\nsurrounded
\nby wisps of cloud<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#29: memory loss<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have learned much
\nforgotten
\nmany times more<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#30: discomfort<\/strong><\/p>\n

pigeon orgy
\non the roof
\nI look away<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#31: ruin<\/strong><\/p>\n

they closed the pub
\nyears ago
\nleft it to rot<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#32: approaching dusk #1<\/strong><\/p>\n

the contrails sweep
\nin curved arcs
\nacross the sky<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#33: approaching dusk #2<\/strong><\/p>\n

storm clouds approach
\nthunder heard
\nno lightning seen<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#34: a sunday afternoon<\/strong> <\/p>\n

suddenly now
\nI feel sick
\nfaint, my eyes weep<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#35: afterwards<\/strong><\/p>\n

I sleep soundly
\nthrough the night
\nand through the day<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#36: british summer time<\/strong><\/p>\n

went to the shops
\nit rained and
\nrained and rained and<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#37: living room<\/strong><\/p>\n

there’s a spider
\nhanging there
\nwaiting, waiting<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#38: bank holiday weekend #1<\/strong><\/p>\n

sat beneath a
\nparasol
\nand did not move<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#39: bank holiday weekend #2<\/strong><\/p>\n

hair wet with sweat
\nhead throbbing
\ni cannot sleep<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#40: an autobiography of my life until now<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was lonely
\nthen I was
\nlonelier still<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#41: september<\/strong><\/p>\n

the sun went in
\nthe wind blew
\nearly autumn<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#42: in the park #1<\/strong><\/p>\n

a sausage dog
\nprancing by
\ngrinning, grinning<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#43: in the park #2<\/strong><\/p>\n

a pound a bag
\nby the pond
\nto buy duck food<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#44: in the park #3<\/strong><\/p>\n

i put away
\nthe rubbish
\nothers had left<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#45:<\/strong> <\/p>\n

a small forest
\nof dead trees
\nall turned to bone<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#46: beyond intransigence<\/strong><\/p>\n

if I can change
\nmy own mind
\nyou can change yours<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#47: the catcher in the rye<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’d never read
\nthis before
\nbut now I have<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#48: i<\/strong><\/p>\n

I feel so tired
\nall the time
\nold bones aching<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#49: corrections<\/strong><\/p>\n

rewriting this
\npoem took
\nseveral hours<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#50: in my pocket<\/strong><\/p>\n

a tiny scrap
\nof paper
\ncontaining this<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#51: autumnal river scene #1<\/strong><\/p>\n

on the river
\nan egret
\namongst the gulls<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#52: autumnal river scene #2<\/strong><\/p>\n

fisherman’s boat
\nfisherman
\nfisherman’s dog<\/p>\n

__________<\/p>\n

Notes:<\/p>\n

1. Written between August 10th and September 6th<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br>

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some more poems all written in 4\/3\/4 *** #27: night sky #1 beneath the stars on my back I lay weeping *** #28: night sky #2 A near full moon surrounded by wisps of cloud *** #29: memory loss I have learned much forgotten many times more *** #30: discomfort pigeon orgy on the roof […]<\/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":[721,191],"class_list":["post-2376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ephemera","tag-4-3-4","tag-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376","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=2376"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions\/2380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}