{"id":1489,"date":"2013-03-13T11:28:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T19:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2013-03-13T11:28:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T19:28:40","slug":"michael-bonacci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=1489","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bonacci"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AND FOR ALL THIS, NATURE IS NEVER SPENT<br \/>\n<em>&#8211;Gerard Manly Hopkins<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My mother\u2019s on the mountain,<br \/>\na seventy-five year journey<\/p>\n<p>joined to deadfalls and blowdowns \u2013<br \/>\nthe Romance of fallen trees.<\/p>\n<p>The stuff of her, golden dust<br \/>\nin the candy jar that always held lemon drops,<\/p>\n<p>flung to the breeze, lighting on<br \/>\nlicorice ferns, salal and salmonberry,<\/p>\n<p>frenetic fronds of fireweed.<br \/>\nFather followed a year later,<\/p>\n<p>asked for the river, the alluvial fan<br \/>\nat the edge of the flats<\/p>\n<p>around the islands and out to sea.<br \/>\nFlipping through field guides<\/p>\n<p>and fingering topographical maps<br \/>\nI try to conjure them,<\/p>\n<p>buds of the earth\u2019s bounty<br \/>\nbriefly grasped, and from a distance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/2980533.Michael_Bonacci\">Michael Bonacci<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0collection of poems,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scn.org\/floatingbridge\/christopher_main.html\"><em>The Former St. Christopher,<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>won the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/floatingbridgepress.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/ten-year-journey-michael-bonacci.html\">2004 Floating Bridge Chapbook Award. \u00a0<\/a>Michael.writes poetry, adapts historical documents for the stage, and is still shopping around that first novel hoping to find an agent who will bite. \u00a0Artisan bread baking is another way to keep his hands busy, and now that his Japanese style landscape is maturing, he&#8217;s learning how to edit with pruning shears. He and his fianc\u00e9 David Bricka, and their amazing wonder dog Buddy, live in Mount Vernon, WA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AND FOR ALL THIS, NATURE IS NEVER SPENT &#8211;Gerard Manly Hopkins My mother\u2019s on the mountain, a seventy-five year journey joined to deadfalls and blowdowns \u2013 the Romance of fallen trees. The stuff of her, golden dust in the candy &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=1489\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[258,61,100,8],"tags":[481,480,482],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1491,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}