{"id":1345,"date":"2012-05-06T21:15:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T10:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2012-05-06T21:30:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T10:30:28","slug":"reprieve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1345","title":{"rendered":"reprieve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F45251131%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-TFz8p&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;secret_url=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A remix of my poem <em>the bird leaves its cage (and enters another)<\/em> remixed with <a href=\"http:\/\/ccmixter.org\/people\/duckett\">duckett<\/a>\u2019s smooth production of Ad Astra by Ghost Collective.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/reprieve1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1350\" title=\"reprieve\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/reprieve1-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/reprieve1-246x300.jpg 246w, http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/reprieve1-839x1024.jpg 839w, http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/reprieve1.jpg 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The bird leaves its cage and enters another<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>for Juan Garrido-Salgado<\/em>*<\/p>\n<p>1990.<br \/>\nenglish was in the air.<br \/>\nthe air<br \/>\nwas english<\/p>\n<p>blowing on a sea breeze at henley or glenelg<br \/>\none sentence floats near you<\/p>\n<p>but it will not come<br \/>\ninto your mouth<\/p>\n<p>tortured barred<br \/>\nin &amp; from your homeland<\/p>\n<p>mute in the newland<br \/>\nyour heart bleeds metaphors<br \/>\nexiled from your tongue<\/p>\n<p>alien vowels\/ consonants<br \/>\nfill your ears<br \/>\nelude your mouth<\/p>\n<p>your heart an injured bird<br \/>\none wing<br \/>\nplastered to tarmac<\/p>\n<p>an impotent flapping<br \/>\nin spanish<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 In 1990 Juan was granted asylum in Australia after fleeing Chile\u2019s Pinochet r\u00e9gime which burned his poetry and imprisoned and tortured him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This was first published in <em>Blue Giraffe 3<\/em> ISSN: 1832-6277. It also appeared in my collection <em>micromacro<\/em> and on the <em>Poetas del Mund<\/em>o and <em>Australian Reader<\/em> websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A remix of my poem the bird leaves its cage (and enters another) remixed with duckett\u2019s smooth production of Ad Astra by Ghost Collective. The bird leaves its cage and enters another for Juan Garrido-Salgado* 1990. english was in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1345\">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-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}