{"id":2907,"date":"2016-04-02T15:10:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T19:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=2907"},"modified":"2016-04-03T18:18:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T22:18:36","slug":"sandy-kohler-again-and-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/sandy-kohler-again-and-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandy Kohler again and again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ON TIME &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong>April 1, 2016, <em>by Sandra Kohler<\/em><\/p>\n<p>i.<br \/>\nWhere did the morning go? The morning<br \/>\nwent where it was supposed to, a child<br \/>\nobediently lining up in the schoolyard,<br \/>\na car nosing into changed lane patterns,<br \/>\nfalling water coursing down a hillside,<br \/>\nover stone, bony outcroppings, rich soil<br \/>\ninscribed by its vein of icy brilliance.<br \/>\nii.<br \/>\nWriting to a friend, I tell her I keep circling<br \/>\naround and around death, my husband\u2019s,<br \/>\nmine, stopping, resting, temporarily landing<br \/>\nin different places. Like the leaf I see today<br \/>\nin the yard, a single yellow leaf, floating<br \/>\ndown like a parachute from high in one<br \/>\ntreetop, a comma of a leaf, a comment.<br \/>\niii.<br \/>\nIn the three years and three months of<br \/>\nmy grandchildren\u2019s lives, time has created<br \/>\ntwo consciousnesses, two new worlds.<br \/>\nStill, the being each child was a year ago<br \/>\nis already lost, vanished. Ruthless and<br \/>\nslaying, time destroys these children,<br \/>\nrecreates them, tender and growing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sandra Kohler\u2019s<\/strong> third collection of poems, Improbable Music, (Word Press) appeared in May 2011. Earlier collections are The Country of Women (Calyx, 1995) and The Ceremonies of Longing (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003). Her poems have appeared recently in Beloit Poetry Journal, Notre Dame Review, Damfino, and Clementine Poetry Journal.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ON TIME &#8212;\u00a0April 1, 2016, by Sandra Kohler i. Where did the morning go? The morning went where it was supposed to, a child obediently lining up in the schoolyard, a car nosing into changed lane patterns, falling water coursing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/sandy-kohler-again-and-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}