{"id":3421,"date":"2024-05-07T15:49:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T15:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/?page_id=3421"},"modified":"2024-05-07T15:49:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T15:49:29","slug":"what-you-hear-by-bill-schreiber","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/what-you-hear-by-bill-schreiber\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0&#8220;What You Hear&#8221; by Bill Schreiber"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">You lie each night on a solitary box,\nlook for solid ground in the morning,\nlive with what is under your feet,\nwatch a ship in the harbor\nanchored too far from shore to swim to.\n \nYou stand on damp sand, yet\ndo not hear the ocean coming,\nsmell its salt or seaweed\nor wash sun from your eyes to see its calm \nwaves rolling to white caps breaching.\n  \nInstead, you listen for a violin,\nits scrape as catgut pulls the eye,\nstrangles air, and water splinters silence,\nstutters your lashes, splashes\nthe blistering surface.\n \nIt is your story\u2014\nto be naked the first time in front of someone you love,\nto forget your umbrella and get soaked walking home,\nto rise from the ashes of what you burned,\nlearn why the window wonders when.\n \nYet you may find, then sit \non a well\u2019s smooth stone lip, feel \nthe cool on your hot cheek as you reach, hear\nthe bucket\u2019s splash at the bottom as muscles \nbegin the work of bringing water.\n\n<\/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>Bill Schreiber<\/strong> has been a Hyla Brook Poet since 2018. Bill has been published in Aerial Review, Shot Glass Journal, The Poets Touchstone and Metonym Journal.\u00a0 Bill works in the technology field and lives with his wife and son in southern New Hampshire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You lie each night on a solitary box, look for solid ground in the morning, live with what is under your feet, watch a ship in the harbor anchored too far from shore to swim to. You stand on damp sand, yet do not hear the ocean coming, smell its salt or seaweed or wash &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/what-you-hear-by-bill-schreiber\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8221;\u00a0&#8220;What You Hear&#8221; by Bill Schreiber&#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-3421","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3421","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=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}