{"id":538,"date":"2026-10-17T11:19:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=538"},"modified":"2026-10-17T11:19:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:19:22","slug":"shrinking-coffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/17\/shrinking-coffin\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrinking coffin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Shrinking coffin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have you seen a pine plank<br>jump like a mad thing<br>when the dead touched it?<br>Wood loathes<br>flesh that dreamt of pure white wings<br>gliding through clean air<br>unsullied<br>by touch of mud, puddle, or damp branch,<br>hatched dry, bloodless,<br>borne on blameless winds through empty sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2014\u00a0<\/em><em>Basil Cartryte<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Of the Measure, in which the preceding Poem is written:<\/em><\/strong><br>The form, of my own devising, is called the&nbsp;<em>quence<\/em>. It is (pardon me, William Blake) &#8220;Poetry Fetter&#8217;d.&#8221; The number of letters in the last word of the title dictates the number of syllables in the first line. The number of letters in the last word of each line dictates the number of syllables in the next line.&nbsp;The poem can be of any length.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Halloween 2026 day 13<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you seen a pine plank \/ jump&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[63,69,10,70],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-2026","tag-halloween-2026","tag-poetic-forms","tag-poetry","tag-quence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}