{"id":2052,"date":"2015-12-22T19:39:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T19:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2015-12-24T17:43:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T17:43:16","slug":"take-two-in-honor-of-the-winter-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/?p=2052","title":{"rendered":"Take Two: In Honor of the Winter Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-2052\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-2052-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-2052-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-2052-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><h4>Winter Matinee<\/h4>\n<p>There is an \"until\" silence<br \/>\u00a0about the place.<br \/>\u00a0Trees watch and wait,<br \/>\u00a0stiffly chilled spectators<br \/>\u00a0circle the theatre on Twin Lake.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Smoke curls from a front row fire<br \/>\u00a0like dollar cigar fumes trailing<br \/>\u00a0toward the breathless balcony.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0One star, center stage, twirls absently,<br \/>\u00a0absorbed in perfect motion.<br \/>\u00a0I am awed by her obvious devotion and<br \/>\u00a0think grace in the wings.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Trees watch and wait.<br \/>\u00a0Below my skates their brown leaves<br \/>\u00a0hang in suspense among the atoms,<br \/>\u00a0as if in cryogenic fashion to contemplate ...<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0People who bend and sway<br \/>\u00a0beneath the sky with shiny blades. <br \/>\u00a0Scribbling equations, eight plus eight, and<br \/>\u00a0daring invasions of fields now thick<br \/>\u00a0with the long bent sticks of those<br \/>\u00a0who must have a goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Padded people skimming the lake<br \/>\u00a0toward invisible net and pole.<br \/>\u00a0People who aimlessly spin or<br \/>\u00a0glide with the wind<br \/>\u00a0too far beyond the fold.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0All manner of human<br \/>\u00a0nature portrayed for trees<br \/>\u00a0and brown leaves to behold ... until.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>by Reggie Morrisey (Circa 1980)<br \/>Originally published in <em>Westchester<\/em> magazine (1981)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-2052-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-2052-0-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p><div id=\"attachment_2054\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/?attachment_id=2054\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2054\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2054\" class=\"wp-image-2054 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/VincentMancuso_SecondSnow.jpg\" alt=\"Second Snow, a pastel by Vincent Mancuso\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/VincentMancuso_SecondSnow.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/VincentMancuso_SecondSnow-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/VincentMancuso_SecondSnow-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Second Snow, a pastel by Vincent Mancuso<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter MatineeThere is an &#8220;until&#8221; silence\u00a0about the place.\u00a0Trees watch and wait,\u00a0stiffly chilled spectators\u00a0circle the theatre on Twin Lake.\u00a0Smoke curls from a front row fire\u00a0like dollar cigar fumes trailing\u00a0toward the breathless balcony.\u00a0One star, center stage, twirls absently,\u00a0absorbed in perfect motion.\u00a0I am awed by her obvious devotion and\u00a0think grace in the wings.\u00a0Trees watch and wait.\u00a0Below my skates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2060,"href":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions\/2060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}