{"id":3762,"date":"2018-10-15T11:35:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T15:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=3762"},"modified":"2018-11-01T12:25:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T16:25:05","slug":"october-sestina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=3762","title":{"rendered":"October Sestina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">October Sestina<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>season of pumpkins<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and full moon<\/em><br \/>\n<em>neatly arranged haystacks<\/em><br \/>\n<em>fallen leaves<\/em><br \/>\n<em>bags of candy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and ghosts<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>they appear those ghosts<\/em><br \/>\n<em>floating between the pumpkins<\/em><br \/>\n<em>like grey cotton candy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>under a vanilla moon<\/em><br \/>\n<em>above the leaves<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and haystacks<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>surrounded by haystacks<\/em><br \/>\n<em>afraid to encounter ghosts<\/em><br \/>\n<em>a child rustles leaves<\/em><br \/>\n<em>hurrying toward a patch of pumpkins<\/em><br \/>\n<em>watched by a silent moon<\/em><br \/>\n<em>anxious for candy<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Halloween candy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>piled like haystacks<\/em><br \/>\n<em>lit by a silvery moon<\/em><br \/>\n<em>all the ghosts<\/em><br \/>\n<em>dancing with pumpkins<\/em><br \/>\n<em>in the strewn leaves<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>yellow and red leaves<\/em><br \/>\n<em>like candy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>scattered among pumpkins<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and haystacks<\/em><br \/>\n<em>watched over by ghosts<\/em><br \/>\n<em>beneath an argent moon<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Harvest moon<\/em><br \/>\n<em>on autumn leaves<\/em><br \/>\n<em>glimpse of ghosts<\/em><br \/>\n<em>promise of candy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>amidst the haystacks<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and pumpkins<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>By moon light, witches and goblins seek candy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>shuffling through leaves, winding around haystacks<\/em><br \/>\n<em>watchful for ghosts and the king of pumpkins<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3775\" src=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/20181031_090235-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/20181031_090235-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/20181031_090235-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>copyright 2018 Christopher Donahue<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October Sestina season of pumpkins and full moon neatly arranged haystacks fallen leaves bags of candy and ghosts they appear those ghosts floating between the pumpkins like grey cotton candy under a vanilla moon above the leaves and haystacks surrounded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=3762\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3762"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3777,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions\/3777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}