{"id":1164,"date":"2015-04-30T00:15:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T00:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1164"},"modified":"2015-04-30T00:15:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T00:15:39","slug":"two-city-poems-2015","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1164","title":{"rendered":"Two City Poems (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Two City Poems\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">One<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The setting sun dips<\/p>\n<p>The buildings of Knoxville are<\/p>\n<p>afire in reflected light<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They are autumn leaves<\/p>\n<p>of unnatural colors<\/p>\n<p>A purple never seen<\/p>\n<p>and not imagined (that\u2019s hard \u2013 to imagine a new color)<\/p>\n<p>A yellow not from our sun<\/p>\n<p>Too many kinds of reds<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Darkness comes\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Lines recede and disappear<\/p>\n<p>Only light remains<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Two<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The buildings of New York rise as<\/p>\n<p>mountains around Central Park<\/p>\n<p>Catching light, throwing it back<\/p>\n<p>And each time I think that I\u2019m there<\/p>\n<p>Comes another bend in the path &#8212; I am not<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But it is crisp fall day<\/p>\n<p>Leaves still on trees threatening<\/p>\n<p>to drop<\/p>\n<p>more horses drawing lovers<\/p>\n<p>swaddled to see the park<\/p>\n<p>than cars (except for cabs)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I hike this mountain\/city plateau<\/p>\n<p>from northeast to southwest<\/p>\n<p>amazed at the beauty that comes from<\/p>\n<p>man and nature together<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nov 2013-Apr 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two City Poems\u00a0 by Marc Mangel One The setting sun dips The buildings of Knoxville are afire in reflected light &nbsp; They are autumn leaves of unnatural colors A purple never seen and not imagined (that\u2019s hard \u2013 to imagine a new color) A yellow not from our sun Too many kinds of reds &nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1164\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1164","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1164\/revisions\/1166"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}