{"id":12596,"date":"2023-01-11T17:49:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T17:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=12596"},"modified":"2023-01-11T17:49:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T17:49:56","slug":"two-poems-mike-reis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=12596","title":{"rendered":"TWO POEMS &#8211; Mike Reis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HEEDFUL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHospitals in Ukraine are being battered by artillery and airstrikes with increasing frequency. The World Health Organization said that as of March 30, it had verified 82 incidents of attacks on health care since Russia invaded Ukraine, causing 72 deaths and 43 injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>-The Washington Post, April 4, 2022<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nBold-aged, heedful in our fabric,<br \/>\nWe will tomorrow-face<\/p>\n<p>Your ravening salvos, triage<br \/>\nYour unasked incoming.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d lop nurses\u2019 lives,<br \/>\nwe cannot unlimb them.<\/p>\n<p>Take rather<br \/>\nOur caduceus-carved columns.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d hush doctors\u2019 hearts,<br \/>\nWe must unstill them.<\/p>\n<p>Ravage instead<br \/>\nThese wrought Tsarist angels.<\/p>\n<p>And if you\u2019d seize patients\u2019 souls,<br \/>\nCleave cornices only.<\/p>\n<p>Let our friezes<br \/>\nStand hostage.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>RAKING<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThese wet leaves<br \/>\nSubmerged boggy in garden soil,<\/p>\n<p>Then heaped beneath the rake,<br \/>\nPant to be tilth,<\/p>\n<p>Crave to birth,<br \/>\nAre already pushing,<\/p>\n<p>Loam-bedded under cuticle,<br \/>\nLoop of palm, whorl of thumb.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mike Reis is a writer and environmental historian who has had poems published in <em>The Galway Review, Crossways, Gargoyle, Lucille, Urthkin, The Archer, Laughing Bear, Grand Little Things, North of Oxford, The Broadkill Review<\/em>, <em>The Raven\u2019s Perch, the Amelia<\/em> poetry postcard series, and <em>Cabin Fever<\/em>, the anthology of the Joaquin Miller Cabin Poetry Series<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HEEDFUL \u201cHospitals in Ukraine are being battered by artillery and airstrikes with increasing frequency. The World Health Organization said that as of March 30, it had verified 82 incidents of attacks on health care since Russia invaded Ukraine, causing 72 deaths and 43 injuries.\u201d -The Washington Post, April 4, 2022 &nbsp; Bold-aged, heedful in our [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[409],"class_list":["post-12596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-ukranian-flag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12596"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12620,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596\/revisions\/12620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}