{"id":311,"date":"2007-11-16T22:45:17","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T02:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/16\/deborah-keenan-tree-not-human\/"},"modified":"2014-09-06T13:25:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T17:25:20","slug":"deborah-keenan-tree-not-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/16\/deborah-keenan-tree-not-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Deborah Keenan, &#8220;A Tree Is Not a Human Thing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i>A tree is not a human thing, with its feet<br \/>\nIn the ground and its back hard against the sky;<br \/>\nIt cannot tolerate the small human tendernesses<\/br><br \/>\nMoving beneath&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>She could see that Shirley Jackson understood.<br \/>\nAs one of the guardians, she inspired and oppressed<br \/>\nAt the same moment. She became, that summer, another kind<\/p>\n<p>Of hot wind pushing the days forward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/1571314261\"><i>Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems<\/i><\/a>, which also contains the Pushcat Prize-winning &#8220;August, No Rain.&#8221;  This particular poem is from the first section of the book, also called &#8220;Willow Room, Green Door,&#8221; which Keenan regards as one long poem from the summer of 2005.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could elaborate on the Shirley Jackson allusion, but I confess I&#8217;m not well-read enough to place it, and Google offers no help. If you recognize it, please feel free to email me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tree is not a human thing, with its feet In the ground and its back hard against the sky; It cannot tolerate the small human tendernesses Moving beneath&#8230; She could see that Shirley Jackson understood. As one of the guardians, she inspired and oppressed At the same moment. She became, that summer, another kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3581,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/3581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}