{"id":18971,"date":"2022-02-03T14:28:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T19:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=18971"},"modified":"2022-02-03T14:28:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T19:28:59","slug":"the-poetry-snapshot-winter-nights-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2022\/02\/03\/the-poetry-snapshot-winter-nights-together\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Snapshot: Winter Nights Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He moves slowly,<br \/>\nclinging onto warmth like armor for war.<br \/>\nHis long primate tail lined with frost, heart exhausted,<br \/>\nAway and alone, lost from his home.<br \/>\nUnaware of his fate, paths soon to be crossed,<br \/>\nnature has a wickedly sweet course to bring us together.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18972\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 314px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-18972\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/monkeys.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"202\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Winter Nights, National Geographic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dark starless nights with snow fall,<br \/>\nas innocent as a feather,<br \/>\ncauses his toes to curl up.<\/p>\n<p>Blistering all life until pushed beyond our strife.<br \/>\nSacred, the breaths that exist amidst theses storms.<\/p>\n<p>He follows an innate connection,<br \/>\nperhaps a beautiful view of natural selection.<br \/>\nA feeling, a calling,<br \/>\na mutual collection of responding to each other.<br \/>\nThere is an art to winter communities,<br \/>\nBuilding life-sustaining unity<br \/>\nListening to each opportunity to survive<br \/>\nTogether.<\/p>\n<p>He does not need to understand this necessary kinship,<br \/>\nOr agree to hold each other in the storm for good stewardship,<br \/>\nBut when the time comes, they will reach for each other.<br \/>\nAlways.<br \/>\nIntertwined to create a shield of resilience,<br \/>\nunconditional love kindled by nature&#8217;s brilliance.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The\u00a0only way to survive\u00a0these\u00a0harsh winter nights\u00a0is by sticking\u00a0together.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He moves slowly, clinging onto warmth like armor for war. His long primate tail lined with frost, heart exhausted, Away and alone, lost from his home. Unaware of his fate, paths soon to be crossed, nature has a wickedly sweet course to bring us together. Dark starless nights with snow fall, as innocent as a [&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\/18971"}],"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=18971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18974,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18971\/revisions\/18974"}],"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=18971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}