{"id":5036,"date":"2013-08-07T13:15:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T19:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=5036"},"modified":"2013-08-07T13:15:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T19:15:55","slug":"ed-higgins","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=5036","title":{"rendered":"Ed Higgins"},"content":{"rendered":"

five scifaiku<\/strong><\/p>\n

the moon’s peak–
\nspring’s shrill rut
\na braying mist worm<\/p>\n

scorching solar winds        all surface mining stopped<\/p>\n

clone-soldiers
\nstand in straight ranks
\nin boring rain<\/p>\n

oh, this replacement brain        still empty inside<\/p>\n

leftover pin fruit–
\nhigh in the dar-dar tree
\ngathering star-wings<\/p>\n

ED HIGGINS<\/strong>‘s poems and short fiction have appeared in various print and online journals, including Scifaikuest<\/em> and multiple other haiku\/short-form journals. He and his wife live on a small farm South of Portland, OR. He teaches writing and literature at George Fox University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

five scifaiku the moon’s peak– spring’s shrill rut a braying mist worm scorching solar winds        all surface mining stopped clone-soldiers stand in straight ranks in boring rain oh, this replacement brain        still empty inside leftover pin fruit– high in the dar-dar tree … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":5034,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5036","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-1je","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5036"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5177,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5036\/revisions\/5177"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}