{"id":8557,"date":"2022-04-29T11:40:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T17:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8557"},"modified":"2022-04-29T17:26:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T23:26:30","slug":"five-haiku","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8557","title":{"rendered":"Five haiku"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Michael Dylan Welch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>near the end<br>of the spooky story<br>her raised eyebrow<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>school trip\u2014<br>the zoo gorilla<br>masturbating<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>poetry conference\u2014<br>an opinion<br>from outer space<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>tractor beam malfunction\u2014<br>a turquoise mountain lake<br>hovers above us<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>red pines\u2014<br>our pup tent squashed<br>in the giant footprint<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<hr\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MICHAEL DYLAN WELCH\u00a0<\/strong>has been writing poetry since he was a child, and never got over it. He lives with his wife and two children in Sammamish, Washington, where he\u2019s president of the Redmond Association of Spokenword, curator of SoulFood Poetry Night, and served two terms as Redmond poet laureate. He\u2019s founder and president of the Tanka Society of America, founder of National Haiku Writing Month (www.nahaiwrimo.com), and proprietor of www.graceguts.com, devoted mostly to poetry. His poems and essays have appeared in hundreds of publications in more than twenty languages. Michael also enjoys travel, photography, books, racquetball, and skiing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Dylan Welch near the endof the spooky storyher raised eyebrow school trip\u2014the zoo gorillamasturbating poetry conference\u2014an opinionfrom outer space tractor beam malfunction\u2014a turquoise mountain lakehovers above us red pines\u2014our pup tent squashedin the giant footprint &nbsp; MICHAEL DYLAN WELCH\u00a0has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8557\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8551,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8557","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-2e1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8557","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8567,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8557\/revisions\/8567"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}