{"id":13669,"date":"2024-10-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=13669"},"modified":"2024-10-30T13:11:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T13:11:01","slug":"tiny-windows-david-sapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=13669","title":{"rendered":"TINY WINDOWS &#8211; David Sapp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Down Smokey Road<br \/>\nDeep in the holler<br \/>\nEdge of the woods<br \/>\nA plain white house<br \/>\nAt first glance<br \/>\nAn ordinary dwelling<br \/>\nBut with unusually<br \/>\nTiny windows<br \/>\nBrandishes strident<br \/>\nPolitical preferences<br \/>\nFrom its porch<br \/>\nFlags and signage<br \/>\nNailed to the siding<br \/>\nAdjacent to and<br \/>\nNoticeably larger than<br \/>\nIts small apertures<br \/>\nYou must wonder with<br \/>\nSuch narrow openings<br \/>\nIt must be impossible<br \/>\nTo catch a glimpse<br \/>\nOf heavens spinning<br \/>\nA plump saffron moon<br \/>\nSkirting the horizon<br \/>\nA fox slipping silently<br \/>\nPast barn and silo<br \/>\nOr when it first begins<br \/>\nTo snow \u2013 you know<br \/>\nThat white blurring of<br \/>\nVision edge to edge<br \/>\nOr taking in the breadth<br \/>\nOf humanity living<br \/>\nBreathing and suffering<br \/>\nJust beyond<br \/>\nThose tiny windows<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nDavid Sapp, writer, artist, and professor, lives along the southern shore of Lake Erie in North America. A Pushcart nominee, he was awarded Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Grants for poetry and the visual arts. His poetry and prose appear widely in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. His publications include articles in the <em>Journal of Creative Behavior,<\/em> chapbooks <em>Close to Home<\/em> and <em>Two Buddha, a novel Flying Over Erie<\/em>, and a book of poems and drawings titled <em>Drawing Nirvana.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Down Smokey Road Deep in the holler Edge of the woods A plain white house At first glance An ordinary dwelling But with unusually Tiny windows Brandishes strident Political preferences From its porch Flags and signage Nailed to the siding Adjacent to and Noticeably larger than Its small apertures You must wonder with Such narrow [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[456],"class_list":["post-13669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-scary-house-by-paolo-gamba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13669","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=13669"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13682,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13669\/revisions\/13682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}