{"id":19673,"date":"2011-12-26T10:30:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T18:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/the-art-of-being-poem-by-anne-coray\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T18:15:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T01:15:42","slug":"the-art-of-being-poem-by-anne-coray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/the-art-of-being-poem-by-anne-coray\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Being | Poem by Anne Coray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>\ufeffAnne Coray is an Alaskan, and in this beautiful meditation on the stillness of nature she shows us how closely she\u2019s studied something that others might simply step over.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>The Art of Being<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The fern in the rain breathes the silver message.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Stay, lie low. Play your dark reeds<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>and relearn the beauty of absorption.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>There is nothing beyond the rotten log<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>covered with leaves and needles.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Forget the light emerging with its golden wick.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Raise your face to the water-laden frond.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>A thousand blossoms will fall into your arms.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><em>American Life in Poetry is made possible by <a href=\"http:\/\/thepoetryfoundation.cmail1.com\/t\/r\/l\/iiithht\/juuhjyjdr\/y\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Poetry Foundation,<\/a> publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.\u00a0Poem copyright \u00a92011 by Anne Coray from her most recent book of poetry, A Measure\u2019s Hush, Boreal Books, 2011. Poem reprinted by permission of Anne Coray and the publisher.\u00a0Introduction copyright \u00a92011 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction&#8217;s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Coray is an Alaskan, and in this beautiful meditation on the stillness of nature she shows us how closely she\u2019s studied something that others might simply step over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-19673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19673"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}