{"id":2966,"date":"2023-04-27T18:24:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T18:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/?page_id=2966"},"modified":"2023-04-27T18:24:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T18:24:56","slug":"like-by-kurt-olsson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/like-by-kurt-olsson\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Like&#8221; by Kurt Olsson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Like the rain\n\nLike the purr of the furnace\n\nLike the half-empty laundry basket and the yellowing lamp glow of the house\n    across the street\n\nLike the sure flight of a small bird\n\nLike the calligraphy behind your eyelids. The promise of onions frying\n\nLike a man walking the dog (or the dog walking a man)\n\nLike the sacred space just before sunrise\n\nLike a picture frame but without the picture\n\nLike a neighborhood and like the same neighborhood a heartbeat later\n\nLike happiness, but not quite\n\nLike sadness, too\n\nLike a blue door\n\nThe morning you gave up caring.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kurt Olsson\u2019s <\/strong>poems have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including Poetry, The Threepenny Review, and Southern Review. He\u2019s published two poetry collections, Burning Down Disneyland (Gunpowder Press) and What Kills What Kills Us (Silverfish Review Press). A third collection, The Unnumbered Anniversaries, is due out next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the rain Like the purr of the furnace Like the half-empty laundry basket and the yellowing lamp glow of the house across the street Like the sure flight of a small bird Like the calligraphy behind your eyelids. The promise of onions frying Like a man walking the dog (or the dog walking a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/like-by-kurt-olsson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Like&#8221; by Kurt Olsson&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2310,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2966","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}