{"id":17898,"date":"2021-11-10T10:10:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T15:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=17898"},"modified":"2021-11-10T10:31:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T15:31:10","slug":"the-poetry-snapshot-the-night-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2021\/11\/10\/the-poetry-snapshot-the-night-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Snapshot: The Night Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curtains pulled back to midnight,<br \/>\nAnd a stage of dancing stars.<br \/>\nToo brief, this autumn light.<br \/>\nStolen, but never ours.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17899\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 324px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-17899\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_6126.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_6126.jpg 640w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_6126-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><em>Meadowbrook Amphitheater<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ours was never a bite<br \/>\ninto a crisp apple autumn sky.<br \/>\nA bright, chilled dewy cry.<br \/>\nNo.<\/p>\n<p>Ours was the brink of a buoyant horizon,<br \/>\nturned to shade in the blink of an eye.<br \/>\nTied down by an emerging moon.<br \/>\nFor one moment, the pulse in this room ceases,<br \/>\nas the death of day show steals our breath.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to The Night Shift.<br \/>\nTime drenched in thrifted emotions,<br \/>\nsharing silence in slow motion.<br \/>\nIn the midst of darkness,<br \/>\nwe create color.<\/p>\n<p>Shadowed vision,<br \/>\nbut you catch a broken smile<br \/>\nand words unspoken.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s always one touch forward,<br \/>\nbut two thoughts back.<\/p>\n<p>In my corner of nightfall<br \/>\nI set down all composure.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been here before,<br \/>\nbeen here often.<br \/>\nMoonbeams feel no pressure to enter my window,<br \/>\nfor I can navigate transience with my eyes closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curtains pulled back to midnight, And a stage of dancing stars. Too brief, this autumn light. Stolen, but never ours. Ours was never a bite into a crisp apple autumn sky. A bright, chilled dewy cry. No. Ours was the brink of a buoyant horizon, turned to shade in the blink of an eye. Tied [&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\/17898"}],"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=17898"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17903,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17898\/revisions\/17903"}],"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=17898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}