{"id":1828,"date":"2011-03-20T15:07:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T21:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2011-03-20T15:08:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T21:08:28","slug":"spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/e.sv_.millay.175.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/e.sv_.millay.175.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"e.sv.millay.175\" width=\"135\" height=\"110\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1829\" \/><\/a>A reader reminded me that spring has just begun, and that in turn reminded me of a peculiar poem I&#8217;ve always liked, by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), whose poetry is wildly erratic. This is Edna St. Vincent Millay at her best:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Spring<\/B><\/p>\n<p>To what purpose, April, do you return again?<br \/>\nBeauty is not enough.<br \/>\nYou can no longer quiet me with the redness<br \/>\nOf little leaves opening stickily.<br \/>\nI know what I know.<br \/>\nThe sun is hot on my neck as I observe<br \/>\nThe spikes of the crocus.<br \/>\nThe smell of the earth is good.<br \/>\nIt is apparent that there is no death.<br \/>\nBut what does that signify?<br \/>\nNot only under ground are the brains of men<br \/>\nEaten by maggots.<br \/>\nLife in itself<br \/>\nIs nothing,<br \/>\nAn empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.<br \/>\nIt is not enough that yearly, down this hill,<br \/>\nApril<br \/>\nComes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetry-archive.com\/m\/spring.html\">Link<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader reminded me that spring has just begun, and that in turn reminded me of a peculiar poem I&#8217;ve always liked, by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), whose poetry is wildly erratic. This is Edna St. Vincent Millay at her best: Spring To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/spring\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spring&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1209],"tags":[1452,34,2643,1451],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}