{"id":2794,"date":"2023-12-04T17:23:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T17:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/?p=2794"},"modified":"2023-12-04T17:23:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T17:23:56","slug":"the-dawn-bringer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/the-dawn-bringer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dawn-Bringer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>August Jirovec<\/em><br \/>\n<em>School of Medicine and Public Health, Shared Services IT<\/em><br \/>\n<em>2017<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Poem<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before the hill I stand,<br \/>\nthe sun across my back;<br \/>\na shadow in the sand<br \/>\ncommands my forward tack,<br \/>\nand age-worn motifs lead<br \/>\nthe hand, the steed, and creed.<\/p>\n<p>Embossed with saintly traits,<br \/>\nthe lure of roguish trades<br \/>\nthreatens to thwart coarse fates<br \/>\nthat trend toward staid charades,<br \/>\nand right beliefs drift wrong<br \/>\nby pricks from Doubt\u2019s bleak prong.<\/p>\n<p>Lawless goes heart and mind,<br \/>\nthe sun against my face;<br \/>\na shadow draws behind<br \/>\nwho ceaseless gives me chase<br \/>\nand silhouettes that etch<br \/>\ntheir wretched ruleset stretch<\/p>\n<p>into an inclined night.<br \/>\nThe glance askance begins<br \/>\nto show my inmost blight<br \/>\n(where locusts sowed their sins),<br \/>\nand hobbled reap alone<br \/>\nmy birthright to atone.<\/p>\n<p>Afired by bright flint strikes,<br \/>\nthe sun within me grows;<br \/>\na shadow legion&#8217;s pikes<br \/>\nwill fall denied, their throes<br \/>\nand plots dethroned break fast\u2014<br \/>\nthe dawn I wake at last.<\/p>\n<p>Let rise the morning star,<br \/>\nthe twin to my lightscapes;<br \/>\nthese torches once ranged far,<br \/>\nreturned eclipse two shapes:<br \/>\nand douse my hell below<br \/>\nthat once stoked heaven&#8217;s glow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August Jirovec School of Medicine and Public Health, Shared Services IT 2017 Poem &nbsp; Before the hill I stand, the sun across my back; a shadow in the sand commands my forward tack, and age-worn motifs lead the hand, the steed, and creed. Embossed with saintly traits, the lure of roguish trades threatens to thwart&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/the-dawn-bringer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,10],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-2794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2023-issue","category-writing","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794","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=2794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2795,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions\/2795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}