{"id":161,"date":"2016-05-20T15:38:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T22:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/?page_id=161"},"modified":"2016-05-20T15:38:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T22:38:52","slug":"enemy-encounter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/poems\/enemy-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"Enemy Encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dumping (left over from the autumn) \u00a0 \u2028Dead leaves, near a culvert \u00a0 \u2028<\/p>\n<p>I come on \u00a0 \u2028\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>a British Army Soldier \u00a0 \u2028<\/p>\n<p>With a rifle and a radio \u00a0 \u2028<\/p>\n<p>Perching hiding.\u00a0 He has red hair. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He is young enough to be my weenie \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>-bopper daughter\u2019s boy-friend \u00a0 \u2028<\/p>\n<p>He is like a lonely little winter robin. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are that close to each other.\u00a0 I \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Can nearly hear his heart beating. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I say something bland to make him grin, \u00a0 \u2028<\/p>\n<p>But his glass eyes look past my side- \u00a0 \u2028<\/p>\n<p>Whiskers down \u00a0 \u2028\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>the Shore Road street. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2028I am an Irish man \u00a0 \u2028\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0and he is afraid \u00a0 \u2028<\/p>\n<p>That I have come to kill him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Padraic Fiacc\u00a0 (1924-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 )\u2028\u00a0(Patrick Joseph O\u2019Connor)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dumping (left over from the autumn) \u00a0 \u2028Dead leaves, near a culvert \u00a0 \u2028 I come on \u00a0 \u2028\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a British Army Soldier \u00a0 \u2028 With a rifle and a radio \u00a0 \u2028 Perching hiding.\u00a0 He has red hair. \u00a0&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/poems\/enemy-encounter\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"parent":84,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}