{"id":1069,"date":"2020-12-09T13:28:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T13:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2021-12-01T15:55:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T15:55:42","slug":"a-world-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/a-world-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"A world on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Ariel Niforatos<\/em><br \/>\n<em>School of Medicine and Public Health<\/em><br \/>\n<em>2020<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Poem<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I hear the sky speak<br \/>\nin low cadences and agitated whispers<br \/>\ncontinuous musings of a world<br \/>\nmuch older than we are<\/p>\n<p>It tells me of the Beginning<br \/>\nwhen the first bud of life took in<br \/>\nits first breath<br \/>\nAnd it tells me of the End<br \/>\nwhen the world will siphon down<br \/>\nthe hourglass of Time<br \/>\nand emerge broken and befuddled<br \/>\non the other side<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I feel the sky\u2019s grief<br \/>\ncaptured in crystal slices running down my face<br \/>\nas I mourn<br \/>\nthe destruction around us<br \/>\nand I know<br \/>\nwhen the rain stops<br \/>\nwhen the Earth is dry<br \/>\nthat even the sky has run out of tears<br \/>\nat the mess we have made<\/p>\n<p>Because we live in a world set on fire<br \/>\nwhere hatred is rampant<br \/>\ndivision trumps unity<br \/>\nand the clouds that gather are the fumes<br \/>\nstoked by demagogues<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the smoke is too much<br \/>\nthe flames scorch my skin<br \/>\nthe sky is choked with shadow<br \/>\nbut I remember<br \/>\nwithin the fire there is a phoenix<br \/>\nwithin the storm there are flashes of light<br \/>\nand every battle not fought is justice not won<\/p>\n<p>Today I look up at the parched sky<br \/>\nand hope<br \/>\none day we will heal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ariel Niforatos School of Medicine and Public Health 2020 Poem &nbsp; Sometimes I hear the sky speak in low cadences and agitated whispers continuous musings of a world much older than we are It tells me of the Beginning when the first bud of life took in its first breath And it tells me of&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/a-world-on-fire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,10],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2020-issue","category-writing","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}