{"id":9921,"date":"2017-12-24T21:28:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T21:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=9921"},"modified":"2017-12-24T21:28:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T21:28:15","slug":"gift-of-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2017\/12\/gift-of-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift of the wild"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just spotted a coyote across the creek, running along the bank.<\/p>\n

Happy Christmas Eve to all. Peace, love, and solace<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Gift of the wild<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Christmas a coyote came to our fence
\nand ever since my dog has been visited
\nby dreams of running with the pack,
\nalmost able to catch up but never quite there,<\/p>\n

lagging, and so her back legs push off
\nas she sleeps in her bed, her eyes squint
\nas if to see between the pickets,
\nbeyond the slats shadowed on the ground.<\/p>\n

She wants to stalk the ducks in the creek,
\nno leash tugging like a conscience, to tip over
\ngarbage cans or to rustle among the leaves
\nfor mice, to see the moon and call to it.<\/p>\n

Cookies, I shake the box, her reward for coming in
\nbut she skulks along the fence, desperate for any scent,
\nany sense that she could follow, could still catch up.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a9 Ellen Wade Beals<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Wild<\/a>
Wild desire \u00a9 Ellen Wade Beals, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just spotted a coyote across the creek, running along the bank. Happy Christmas Eve to all. Peace, love, and solace.   Gift of the wild On Christmas a coyote came to our fence and ever since my dog has been visited by dreams of running with the pack, almost able to catch up but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1395,2833,12,3423,280,39,13,7,16,32,2835],"class_list":{"0":"post-9921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-christmas","8":"tag-dog-poetry","9":"tag-ellen-wade-beals","10":"tag-gift-of-the-wild","11":"tag-glimpse-of-solace","12":"tag-photography","13":"tag-poetry","14":"tag-solace","15":"tag-solace-in-so-many-words","16":"tag-weighed-words","17":"tag-wild-desire","18":"entry","19":"has-post-thumbnail"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9924,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9921\/revisions\/9924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}