{"id":1414,"date":"2020-03-23T15:47:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T20:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thespectaclstg.wpengine.com\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2021-05-18T14:59:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T19:59:04","slug":"poetry-by-jonathan-mcgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/?p=1414","title":{"rendered":"Poetry by Jonathan McGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"single-box clearfix entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div class=\"poemscroll\" style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">\n<h4>Goodnight Moon<\/h4>\n<pre style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">How can you sleep until\nyou\u2019ve put the Void to bed?\nNothing is everywhere,\nas everywhere as air.\n\n<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Harold and the Purple Crayon<\/h4>\n<pre style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">We make the purple world\nup as we go. The cities\nyou imagine leave you\nlonely; waves you draw\ncan drown you; cliffs you sketch\ncan break your neck. The self,\nexhausted, tucks itself\nin bed alone undrawn.\n<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>The Going to Bed Book<\/h4>\n<pre style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">An Ark adrift\nWithout a Captain\nOn an endless Sea.\n\nThe Day a page\nUnlined, unmarked.\nThe Moon no human Face.\n\nThe Animals alone\nInvent a Ritual.\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p>Jonathan McGregor&#8217;s creative work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including <em>Gulf Coast, Image Journal, Ruminate Magazine,<\/em> and<em> Dappled Things<\/em>. He teaches writing and literature at Newberry College in South Carolina and is a poetry editor for War, Literature &amp; the Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodnight Moon | Harold and the Purple Crayon | The Going to Bed Book<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}