{"id":8869,"date":"2024-07-31T23:40:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T05:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8869"},"modified":"2024-07-31T23:40:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T05:40:05","slug":"along-the-banks-of-the-charles-river","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8869","title":{"rendered":"Along the Banks of the Charles River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Toni Artuso<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I tread gingerly, crunching on mud<br>made suddenly solid<br>by capricious Arctic blasts<br>that throw Spring\u2019s thaw into reverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I stop,<br>arrested by the rustle of chimes:<br>thin, delicate music from<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">a bed of upstart tulips,<br>red-and-yellow flashes<br>in a miry field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Swaying on spindly stems,<br>tossed by the bitter breeze,<br>frozen brittle petals become bells,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">until the next warm day,<br>when they will brown, curl,<br>fall into the softened muck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<hr\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>TONI ARTUSO<\/strong>\u00a0(she\/her\/hers) is a trans female writer from Salem, Massachusetts. Her verse has appeared in\u00a0<em>Honeyguide Literary Magazine<\/em>, which nominated one of her villanelles for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her poems have also appeared in\u00a0<em>The Christian Science Monitor,Eclectica, Space City Underground Literary Magazine, samfiftyfour, Nixes Mate Review, Molecule, Salamander, The Cackling Kettle, The Lyric, Star*Line,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Ibbetson Street Press<\/em>. X (Twitter): @TAltrina. Instagram: @tonialtrina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toni Artuso I tread gingerly, crunching on mudmade suddenly solidby capricious Arctic blaststhat throw Spring\u2019s thaw into reverse. I stop,arrested by the rustle of chimes:thin, delicate music from a bed of upstart tulips,red-and-yellow flashesin a miry field. Swaying on spindly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8869\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8864,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8869","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-2j3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8869","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=8869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8877,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8869\/revisions\/8877"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}