{"id":506,"date":"2026-05-08T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/?p=506"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:00:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:00:54","slug":"marking-time-by-christopher-gilbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/archives\/506","title":{"rendered":"Marking Time by Christopher Gilbert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Marking Time&quot; by Christopher Gilbert (audio)\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-dr6bbLQsh0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MARKING TIME<br>(for freda robertson)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>jogging out in the morning<br>against the few high clouds the blue<br>sky is a memory like a sheer silk fabric<br>held so far back i can&#8217;t see thru it&#8211;<br>when i breathe the new air my body<br>is young all over, a smell reminds<br>how the two pear trees are white<br>again, their flowers ephemeral<br>as the words i recite to pass time<br>in repetitious wheezed breath&#8211;<br>squirrels, blue jays, downed trees for markers<br>to say how far i&#8217;ve gone, to be used<br>in their brief names to crowd my mind<br>with anything i can count on.<br>today as i struggle against the wind<br>up the hill i watch a small butterfly<br>wavering with spread wings, and remember<br>dreaming of my sister who called<br>last night when i was sleeping, and how<br>twenty years ago she gave me<br>from the held darkness of her brown palms<br>a black butterfly with yellow specks.<br>what it was she said is immaterial,<br>there is the gesture though:<br>and watching a bird overhead fly<br>past the disk of sun, there is a flaring<br>shadow fanned down from above<br>that flickers like a rustled page<br>with a poem on it; it is that quick<br>flute darkness of a sister&#8217;s voice<br>a brother will hear in his heart<br>when he&#8217;s breathing deeply enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARKING TIME(for freda robertson) jogging out in the morningagainst the few high clouds the bluesky is a memory like a sheer silk fabricheld so far back i can&#8217;t see thru it&#8211;when i breathe the new air my bodyis young all over, a smell remindshow the two pear trees are whiteagain, their flowers ephemeralas the words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}