{"id":686,"date":"2022-01-28T22:43:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T22:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/?p=686"},"modified":"2022-02-02T22:44:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T22:44:36","slug":"elegy-for-a-snowman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"Elegy for a Snowman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.9.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.14.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”0px||16px|||” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

Elegy for a Snowman<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The fierce north wind has demolished<\/span><\/p>\n

our snowman<\/span>. Pine bough branches,<\/span><\/p>\n

once his arms, have fallen. That sweet<\/span><\/p>\n

pine-twig smile, three berry <\/span>nose<\/span>,<\/span><\/p>\n

are face down in the bitter cold.<\/span><\/p>\n

His plaid scarf an orphan, frozen stiff,<\/span><\/p>\n

no body to <\/span>protect. <\/span>Hard as we packed<\/span><\/p>\n

the snow<\/span> to withstand the winter wind,<\/span><\/p>\n

he surrendered, even while our holiday <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

lights flashed fast and bright<\/span> <\/span>with hope. <\/span><\/p>\n

During the night<\/span> <\/span>his smile endured <\/span><\/p>\n

as he dreamt<\/span> <\/span>of his pals<\/span>, the birds, who <\/span><\/p>\n

would <\/span>visit mornings to eat the black seed<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

spread be<\/span>neath<\/span> him. As he stood watch<\/span><\/p>\n

on our street, even those dreary,<\/span><\/p>\n

sunless days, every <\/span>moment<\/span> <\/span>peaked<\/span><\/p>\n

with the gift of life\u2019s abundance<\/span><\/p>\n

and brevity. When we turned over<\/span><\/p>\n

his head, the twig with his smile<\/span><\/p>\n

remained.<\/span><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elegy for a Snowman The fierce north wind has demolished our snowman. Pine bough branches, once his arms, have fallen. That sweet pine-twig smile, three berry nose, are face down in the bitter cold. His plaid scarf an orphan, frozen stiff, no body to protect. Hard as we packed the snow to withstand the winter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-poems","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}