{"id":3041,"date":"2013-03-27T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2015-06-22T12:55:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:55:49","slug":"question-by-may-swenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2013\/03\/27\/question-by-may-swenson\/","title":{"rendered":"Question by May Swenson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Body my house<br \/>my horse my hound<br \/>what will I do when you are fallen<\/p>\n<p>Where will I sleep<br \/>How will I ride<br \/>What will I hunt<\/p>\n<p>Where can I go<br \/>without my mount<br \/>all eager and quick<br \/>How will I know<br \/>in thicket ahead<br \/>is danger or treasure<br \/>when Body my good<br \/>bright dog is dead<\/p>\n<p>How will it be<br \/>to lie in the sky<br \/>without roof or door<br \/>and wind for an eye<\/p>\n<p>With cloud for shift<br \/>how will I hide?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Swenson does the best poetry of the body. I love the enjambment in &quot;Body my good \/ bright dog is dead.&quot; It&#8217;s like the speaker loves life so much that she actually breaks off in the middle of the thought before getting to &quot;dead&quot; because she&#8217;s so stuck on the goodness and brightness of being an embodied being. I also like the phrase &quot;wind for an eye&quot; because it implicitly continues the house metaphor by subtly recalling the etymology of &quot;window,&quot; from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Window#Etymology\">Old Norse &quot;vindauga,&quot; or &quot;wind&#8217;s eye.&quot;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">This entry was originally posted at <a href = \"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1491020.html\">http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1491020.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I&#8217;d prefer it if you&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1491020.html?mode=reply\">comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Body my housemy horse my houndwhat will I do when you are fallen Where will I sleepHow will I rideWhat will I hunt Where can I gowithout my mountall eager and quickHow will I knowin thicket aheadis danger or treasurewhen Body my goodbright dog is dead How will it beto lie in the skywithout roof&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2013\/03\/27\/question-by-may-swenson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Question by May Swenson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[731],"class_list":["post-3041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4961,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions\/4961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}