{"id":331,"date":"2005-12-06T18:55:44","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T22:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/the-mind-of-abrupt\/2005\/12\/06\/for-anna\/"},"modified":"2012-12-12T18:20:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T02:20:40","slug":"for-anna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/for-anna\/","title":{"rendered":"for Anna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"arial\">&nbsp; Pink blush of the happy young bride,<br \/>\n\t\tGone in a distant ship&#8217;s whistle,<br \/>\n\t\tAs the waves roll by,<br \/>\n\t\t&nbsp; As the dust of Jacob washes<br \/>\n\t\t&nbsp; &nbsp; Up on the Lower East Side.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t&nbsp; Pleasant eyes constrain the panic,<br \/>\n\t\tHolding breath for the camera&#8217;s decision.<br \/>\n\t\tShe is married to her husband now:<br \/>\n\t\t&nbsp; To his doom, and a new nation rising.<br \/>\n\t\t&nbsp; &nbsp; Bites her lip she has made her decision.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t&nbsp; So she hopes with the hint of a smile<br \/>\n\t\tThat her children discover the way,<br \/>\n\t\tThrough the smoke that is rising from Europe,<br \/>\n\t\t&nbsp; Through the howl of atoms dissolving,<br \/>\n\t\t&nbsp; &nbsp; In the eye of Science unfolding<\/p>\n<p>\t\t &hellip;yet not for her. But never for her;<br \/>\n\t\tHer service was always to others.<br \/>\n\t\tShe was last seen receding,<br \/>\n\t\t&nbsp; Too soon the breast stopped heaving<br \/>\n\t\t&nbsp; &nbsp; In the subway&#8217;s cry<br \/>\n\t\t&nbsp; &nbsp; &ndash; In a sullen bucket of lye<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pink blush of the happy young bride,<br \/>\nGone in a distant ship&#8217;s whistle &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[262,265,68,176,266,264],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-abrupt","tag-america","tag-family","tag-history","tag-holocaust","tag-judaism","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}