{"id":2272,"date":"2024-02-11T19:57:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T01:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thespectaclstg.wpengine.com\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2024-03-14T20:02:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T01:02:04","slug":"poetry-by-ellen-welcker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/?p=2272","title":{"rendered":"Poetry by Ellen Welcker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Welcker-Ellen_5-Poems-from-I-AM-THE-HORSE-page-001-3-1024x448.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2322\" width=\"666\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Welcker-Ellen_5-Poems-from-I-AM-THE-HORSE-page-001-3-1024x448.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Welcker-Ellen_5-Poems-from-I-AM-THE-HORSE-page-001-3-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Welcker-Ellen_5-Poems-from-I-AM-THE-HORSE-page-001-3-150x66.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Welcker-Ellen_5-Poems-from-I-AM-THE-HORSE-page-001-3-1536x671.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Welcker-Ellen_5-Poems-from-I-AM-THE-HORSE-page-001-3-330x144.jpg 330w, https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Welcker-Ellen_5-Poems-from-I-AM-THE-HORSE-page-001-3-690x302.jpg 690w, https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Welcker-Ellen_5-Poems-from-I-AM-THE-HORSE-page-001-3-1050x459.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Welcker-Ellen_5-Poems-from-I-AM-THE-HORSE-page-001-3-1327x580.jpg 1327w, https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Welcker-Ellen_5-Poems-from-I-AM-THE-HORSE-page-001-3.jpg 1910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Welcker-Ellen_5-Poems-from-I-AM-THE-HORSE-page-002-1-1024x503.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2315\" width=\"666\" height=\"351\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Welcker-Ellen_5-Poems-from-I-AM-THE-HORSE-page-003-1-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2316\" width=\"647\" height=\"279\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Welcker-Ellen_5-Poems-from-I-AM-THE-HORSE-page-004-1-1024x381.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2317\" width=\"656\" height=\"254\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Welcker-Ellen_5-Poems-from-I-AM-THE-HORSE-page-005-1-1024x343.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2318\" width=\"625\" height=\"240\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Ellen Welcker is the author of <em>Ram Hands<\/em> (Scablands Books, 2016), <em>The Botanical Garden<\/em> (Astrophil Press, 2010) and five chapbooks, most recently, <em>Keep Talking<\/em> (Sixth Finch Books, 2023). She lives in the United States Midwest and is online at <a href=\"http:\/\/ellenwelcker.com\">ellenwelcker.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horse loves the beaver and its habit of \/ reengineering the entire ecosystem. Horse sees in the beaver\u2019s efforts a reflection \/ of her dreams, her goals, and her work ethic. This is a fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[97,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272"}],"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=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}