{"id":1003,"date":"2018-12-19T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2018-12-18T16:01:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T15:01:47","slug":"poems-by-marie-mcmullin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/2018\/12\/poems-by-marie-mcmullin\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems by Marie McMullin"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Golden
‘Golden October Autumn Idyll’ \u00a9 ASSY. Source<\/a> – CC License<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

OLD FRIEND<\/p>\n

Old friend, I think of you still sometimes.<\/p>\n

A ceaseless hiss in the back of my mind<\/p>\n

Tempts me into dwelling on things long past.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Come, just this once<\/p>\n

Take my hand<\/p>\n

And follow me down<\/p>\n

Memory lane,<\/p>\n

My very own fairy tale.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Here is where we met<\/p>\n

On opposite sides of a river<\/p>\n

With no bridge in sight.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Each day we came<\/p>\n

And sat under the rustling trees<\/p>\n

Feet playing in the waves.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Sunlight skittered upon the water<\/p>\n

Twining with our laughter<\/p>\n

And starting a fire.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Here is the meander<\/p>\n

Where one day I jumped<\/p>\n

When the distance became too much.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Eyes closed, I see<\/p>\n

Your hand holding mine<\/p>\n

Pulling me out.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Eyes open, I gasp on the dank bank<\/p>\n

Where the current spat me<\/p>\n

At your behest:<\/p>\n

Me here, you there.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A buzzing in my ears says you are near<\/p>\n

Standing on the other side of the river.<\/p>\n

Old friend, I think of you still sometimes.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Althingi
‘Althingi Broken Glass’ \u00a9 Unknown. Source<\/a> – CC License<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

SILENT WITNESSES<\/p>\n

The door slams and resonates<\/p>\n

with the last notes of a dance<\/p>\n

more violent than a waltz.<\/p>\n

A boiled-over pot on the stove<\/p>\n

and acrid sinuous smoke<\/p>\n

stinging the eyes and throat.<\/p>\n

Chopped vegetables scattered<\/p>\n

like cadavers on the counter<\/p>\n

copy bloody battlefields.<\/p>\n

The toy castle, built brick by brick,<\/p>\n

Is no longer a home but a house of cards<\/p>\n

Flattened by words, those vicious, vindictive winds.<\/p>\n

A teddy bear, cast away by an angry hand,<\/p>\n

lies face down on the ground,<\/p>\n

head tucked into the corner to drown out the shouts.<\/p>\n

To its left, a smashed up plate,<\/p>\n

Its pieces remnants of one<\/p>\n

painful, piercing shriek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OLD FRIEND Old friend, I think of you still sometimes. A ceaseless hiss in the back of my mind Tempts me into dwelling on things long past.   Come, just this once Take my hand And follow me down Memory lane, My very own fairy tale.   Here is where we met On opposite sides […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-winter18"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}