{"id":17337,"date":"2021-10-13T09:56:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T13:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=17337"},"modified":"2021-12-10T16:17:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T21:17:40","slug":"the-poetry-snapshot-october-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2021\/10\/13\/the-poetry-snapshot-october-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Snapshot: October Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17338\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 290px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17338\" style=\"-webkit-user-drag: none; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: -1ex;\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2021-10-05-13_24_03.868-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2021-10-05-13_24_03.868-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2021-10-05-13_24_03.868-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2021-10-05-13_24_03.868-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><em>Ann Arbor, Michigan<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As I take a seat by this fountain<br \/>\nAnd listen to you speak tonight,<br \/>\neveryone around us fades away.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not that you have so much to say,<br \/>\nBut your few words are arranged into a lovely bouquet.<\/p>\n<p>My October boy,<br \/>\nare you a blueprint or abstract art?<br \/>\nYou carry a California breeze in your back pocket,<br \/>\nBut keep Chicago winds in your heart.<br \/>\nYour expression reads casual,<br \/>\nyet somehow still curated,<br \/>\nLike a timeless design,<br \/>\nyou will never be outdated.<\/p>\n<p>Your voice is soft, yet your charisma stays aloft,<br \/>\nOctober boy, you are now on top.<br \/>\nMore adventurous than August, and sweeter than September,<br \/>\nYour eyes-closed smile is one that I&#8217;ll remember.<\/p>\n<p>An old man walks by to say what he perceives,<br \/>\nBefore asking our names, he tells us that he believes,<br \/>\nIn us. What a magically frightful phrase to hear.<br \/>\nI think I&#8217;m falling for you like crisp golden leaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I take a seat by this fountain And listen to you speak tonight, everyone around us fades away. It&#8217;s not that you have so much to say, But your few words are arranged into a lovely bouquet. My October boy, are you a blueprint or abstract art? You carry a California breeze in your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2205,"featured_media":13473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,15,1372],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17342,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17337\/revisions\/17342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}