{"id":4097,"date":"2012-03-06T23:51:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T03:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=4097"},"modified":"2012-03-06T23:52:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T03:52:51","slug":"william-stafford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/william-stafford\/","title":{"rendered":"William Stafford – Kansas Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been reading a lot of Kansas raised poet Williams Stafford’s work lately and am really enjoying it. There’s a really great biography on the Poetry Foundation’s website (read it here<\/b><\/a>). I’ve always been inspired by the imagery and ideas within poems, and I really connect to a lot of those in Stafford’s work.. maybe it’s the Kansas thing..<\/p>\n

\"independence<\/p>\n

Independence Creek, Atchison, KS, 2009.<\/i><\/p>\n

\nSending These Messages<\/b>
\nby William Stafford<\/p>\n

Over these writings I bent my head.
\nNow you are considering them. If you
\nturn away I will look up: a bridge
\nthat was there will be gone.
\nFor the rest of your life I will stand here,
\nreaching across.<\/p>\n

If these writings can bring a turn
\nor an echo that touches you ~ maybe
\na face, a slant, a tune ~ you will stop
\ntoo and bend over them. When you
\nlook up, your thought will reach
\nwherever I am.<\/p>\n

I know it is strange. and there is no measure
\nfor this. The only connection we make
\nis like a twinge when sometimes they change
\nthe beat in music, and we sprawl with it
\nand hear another world for a minute
\nthat is almost there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been reading a lot of Kansas raised poet Williams Stafford’s work lately and am really enjoying it. There’s a really great biography on the Poetry Foundation’s website (read it here). I’ve always been inspired by the imagery and ideas within poems, and I really connect to a lot of those in Stafford’s work.. maybe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4097"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4104,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions\/4104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}