{"id":614,"date":"2020-07-25T16:35:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T16:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=614"},"modified":"2020-07-25T16:35:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T16:35:25","slug":"no-story-remains-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2020\/07\/25\/no-story-remains-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"No story remains fixed."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-25-2020-West-1024x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-25-2020-West-1024x250.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-25-2020-West-300x73.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-25-2020-West-768x188.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-25-2020-West-1536x376.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-25-2020-West-2048x501.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-25-2020-West-604x148.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 15px;line-height: 1.3\"><strong><em>Reserved for Poets<\/em><\/strong> by Barbara Helvey Hughes<br>\u00a0<br>How can we know?<br>How can we ever truly know?<br>\u00a0<br>Atoms of moments fly<br>toward us with the force of<br>cosmic energy, splintering all<br>around us.\u00a0 People enter and<br>exit our lives ~ each brings a<br>gift. \u00a0Most leave.\u00a0 I hear their<br>echoed murmurs ~ distant and<br>fading.\u00a0 Impactful only in their<br>specific moments ~ or years.<br>\u00a0<br>But my life, my story fills with<br>twists and turns reserved for<br>poets ~ in need of reflection.<br>Introspection.\u00a0 Lessons.<br>My head, instinctively, turns West.<br>There you are.<br>Here I am.<br>\u00a0<br>Trees have begun their sultry<br>dance toward the varied<br>palette of Autumn\u2019s breath.<br>In some distant forest,<br>Redwoods sigh.\u00a0 You and me?<br>We look up.\u00a0 Geese, overhead.<br>\u00a0<br>How can we know?<br>Breathe.<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all collaborate with one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615,"comment_status":"open","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":[15,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}