{"id":2553,"date":"2016-11-10T05:06:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T10:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/?p=2553"},"modified":"2016-10-29T17:18:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T21:18:47","slug":"two-poems-for-broad-ripple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/two-poems-for-broad-ripple\/","title":{"rendered":"TWO POEMS FOR BROAD RIPPLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Standard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/files\/2016\/11\/seth.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2556\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/files\/2016\/11\/seth.png\" alt=\"seth\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/files\/2016\/11\/seth.png 960w, http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/files\/2016\/11\/seth-659x439.png 659w, http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/files\/2016\/11\/seth-768x512.png 768w, http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/files\/2016\/11\/seth-700x467.png 700w, http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/files\/2016\/11\/seth-332x221.png 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><strong>First Day Jitters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\">We walked orange streaked hallways<br \/>\nwith imposing red lockers.<br \/>\nAround the corners, whispers in huddles.<br \/>\nWe readied the sandwiches.<br \/>\nWe readied the sign-in sheet.<br \/>\nStaring at the grain in the wooden door,<br \/>\nwe bided our time.<br \/>\nWe rehearsed our lines.<br \/>\nThe prompts were in our hands, but<br \/>\nour hands were shaking.<br \/>\nAnxiety between you and me.<br \/>\nThere were no expectations of what<br \/>\nwould come running through that door,<br \/>\nand what I expected deep, in the recesses<br \/>\nof my mind, I\u2019m still<br \/>\nnot sure.<br \/>\nI sat silent, practicing faces in my phone,<br \/>\ntrying to look welcoming<br \/>\nas the kids come streaming\u00a0in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><strong>Getting to Know The Students<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\">It\u2019s hard to get to know someone<br \/>\nwhen you feel worlds apart.<br \/>\nYou feel a great quaking,<br \/>\nan aching in your heart.<br \/>\nBut you think this will never work:<br \/>\nwe\u2019re two different works of art\u2014<br \/>\na mentor and a student,<br \/>\nbut no wisdom to impart.<br \/>\nThe world is silent now,<br \/>\nand there seems to be no start<br \/>\nor end to this game,<br \/>\nso I guess I must depart.<br \/>\nBut wait I think\u00a0I hear you say<br \/>\n<em>Let\u2019s just give it a shot<\/em>.<br \/>\nTell me. <em>What songs do you sing?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>What stories have you got?<br \/>\n<\/em>And soon we get to talking<br \/>\nabout the hardships of the day,<br \/>\nand now we\u2019re laughing and joking,<br \/>\nconnection formed with no delay.<br \/>\nKnowing you seemed a challenge,<br \/>\nand trust seemed like a dream,<br \/>\nuntil\u00a0the sea between you and me<br \/>\nshrunk into a stream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><em>Seth Stone is a graduate student in the MFA Creative Writing program.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Day Jitters We walked orange streaked hallways with imposing red lockers. Around the corners, whispers in huddles. We readied the sandwiches. We readied the sign-in sheet. Staring at the grain in the wooden door, we bided our time. We rehearsed our lines. The prompts were in our hands, but &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":2556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15637,37038],"tags":[],"coauthors":[265091],"class_list":["post-2553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broad-ripple","category-bu-tutor-reflections","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2557,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions\/2557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}