{"id":4322,"date":"2006-01-14T18:40:52","date_gmt":"2006-01-14T22:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/01\/14\/staying-indoors-with-pamela\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:15","slug":"staying-indoors-with-pamela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/01\/14\/staying-indoors-with-pamela\/","title":{"rendered":"staying indoors with pamela"},"content":{"rendered":"

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keeping warm and enjoying the company of haijin <\/FONT>Pamela Miller Ness<\/FONT><\/A>:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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small gallopping feet<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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daybreak<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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after all these years<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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after chemo<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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hot train station<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Pamela Miller Ness<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> <\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“small gallopping feet” – <\/FONT>driveway from childhood<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A> (1997)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“trapped” –  pink light, sleeping<\/FONT><\/A> <\/EM><\/FONT>(Small Poetry Press, 1998) <\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV>
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from <\/FONT><\/EM>A New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A>  (2001):<\/FONT><\/EM><\/DIV>
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 “after all these years”: Frogpond<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A> XXI:2;<\/FONT><\/FONT> “daybreak” – <\/FONT>Frogpond<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A> XXIII: 3<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV>
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         <\/EM><\/FONT>                                                                                                                                                    “batmoonN”<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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It’s been a cold, damp, rainy Saturday in Schenectady — and it’s changing into “wintry mix” outside.  Therefore, I’m staying indoors for the duration, keeping warm and enjoying the company of haijin Pamela Miller Ness:       trapped in the bridge’s silver spokes                      bloodred sun       small gallopping feet on a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-17I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12829,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions\/12829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}