{"id":10144,"date":"2021-02-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=10144"},"modified":"2021-02-27T13:51:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T20:51:46","slug":"the-trees-on-her-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/the-trees-on-her-block\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trees on Her Block"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Trees on Her Block<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By Camille Sherman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thick strands, split ends, hanging in zero gravity toward the sky<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A morning stretch, limbs painting fine details on the clouds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noble, astute, aged and ageless<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Naked and resolute, spindly in its brittle winter coat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Immune from human error, impervious to neglect or over-watering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pledging a sacred vow of new life in the spring<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thawing those that pass below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Breathing new poems into poets,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fresh brush strokes into painters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holding our attention and springing our steps<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until a season-long sunset<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When autumn leaves start to fall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Camille Sherman<\/strong> is a professional opera singer from the Bay Area. She trained at The Boston Conservatory and the San Francisco Conservatory of music, and served as an Artist in Residence at Pensacola Opera and Portland Opera. She currently lives in Portland, where she continues to sing and develop artistic projects with local artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trees on Her Block By Camille Sherman Thick strands, split ends, hanging in zero gravity toward the sky A morning stretch, limbs painting fine details on the clouds Noble, astute, aged and ageless Naked and resolute, spindly in its brittle winter coat Immune from human error, impervious to neglect or over-watering Pledging a sacred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1474],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sparks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-2DC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10148,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144\/revisions\/10148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}