{"id":2078,"date":"2016-02-01T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2016-01-22T19:40:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T19:40:20","slug":"on-a-florida-winters-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/?p=2078","title":{"rendered":"On a Florida Winter&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-2078\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-2078-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-2078-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-2078-0-0-0\" 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>With Headset on Winter<br \/>(One for the Birds)<br \/>February 4, 1996<\/h4>\n<p>by Reggie Morrisey<\/p>\n<p>The cello swells. <br \/>High tide on Smacks Bayou.<br \/>Pelicans \"carpe diem.\"<br \/>I dance in place.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing to sit<br \/>serene,<br \/>within I twirl,<br \/>I leap with grace.<br \/>Dove on a dock. <br \/>Nearly fifty...<br \/>that a shock.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Winter's music soars.<br \/>Gulls in high time glide.<br \/>A flock of geese <br \/>takes lettered form<br \/>and low key ducks<br \/>tip wings upon the water.<\/p>\n<p>From afar I am a statue <br \/>in the sax and cello's wake.<br \/>But I dance a jig to life.<br \/>Flight does not elude me.<br \/>Within, my hair twirls round and<br \/>ruffles of a skirt will never cease.<\/p>\n<p>My heart beats <br \/>like the hummingbird.<br \/>The bored raven crows.\u00a0 <br \/>The egret has my number.<br \/>One with them,<br \/>I choose motion <br \/>over slumber.<\/p>\n<p>Training to be<br \/>\"an older\" woman.<br \/>My foot taps. <br \/>I am still dancing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-2078-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-2078-0-1-0\" 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_2014\" style=\"width: 636px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/?attachment_id=2014#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2014\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Vincent_Mancuso-Looking_East2.jpg\" alt=\"Smacks Bayou, painting by Vincent Mancuso\" width=\"626\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2014\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2014\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smacks Bayou, painting by Vincent Mancuso<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Headset on Winter(One for the Birds)February 4, 1996by Reggie MorriseyThe cello swells. High tide on Smacks Bayou.Pelicans &#8220;carpe diem.&#8221;I dance in place.Appearing to sitserene,within I twirl,I leap with grace.Dove on a dock. Nearly fifty&#8230;that a shock.Paul Winter&#8217;s music soars.Gulls in high time glide.A flock of geese takes lettered formand low key duckstip wings upon [&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-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","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=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082,"href":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions\/2082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}