{"id":6117,"date":"2019-11-16T11:59:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T11:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=6117"},"modified":"2020-01-04T02:13:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T02:13:27","slug":"bones-ellen-kempler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=6117","title":{"rendered":"BONES &#8211; Ellen Girardeau Kempler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a beloved dies,<br \/>\nwe gather like elephants<br \/>\nto mourn the bones<br \/>\ntouching each foot<br \/>\nankle, femur, rib,<br \/>\nvertebrae, shoulder,<br \/>\nstroking the pelvis,<br \/>\njaw, cranium, moving<br \/>\neach one separately<br \/>\nwith our trunk-fingers<br \/>\nas if by memorizing<br \/>\nand lifting each one<br \/>\nwe could reanimate<br \/>\nbody, spirit, self.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nEllen Girardeau Kempler&#8217;s poetry has been published <em>Writers Resist, One<\/em> (Jacar Press), <em>Phoenix Rising Review, Gold Man Review, Orbis International Poetry Quarterly, Cargo Literary, Spectrum<\/em> and a number of other small presses and anthologies. In 2016, she won Ireland&#8217;s Blackwater International Poetry Prize and received honorable mentions in Winning Writers&#8217; Tom Howard\/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest and the Writer&#8217;s Digest poetry awards. Called &#8216;a timely and powerful selection of climate poetics,&#8217; her first book, &#8216;<em>Thirty Views of a Changing World: Haiku<\/em> + Photos,&#8217; was published in December 2017 by Finishing Line Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a beloved dies, we gather like elephants to mourn the bones touching each foot ankle, femur, rib, vertebrae, shoulder, stroking the pelvis, jaw, cranium, moving each one separately with our trunk-fingers as if by memorizing and lifting each one we could reanimate body, spirit, self. &nbsp; &nbsp; Ellen Girardeau Kempler&#8217;s poetry has been published [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[349,149],"class_list":["post-6117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-elephant-bones-by-don-maccauley","tag-wikicommons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117","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=6117"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6911,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions\/6911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}