<div class="line">Driving by</div>
<div class="line">our old home</div>
<div class="line">on Mayfair,</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">the cairn was gone</div>
<div class="line">the tire swing</div>
<div class="line">still floating there.</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/VidelockGoes.mp3"></audio></figure>

Reading Exodus

All the Fixings

The Way It Goes

<p><a href="https://www.rattle.com/ekphrasis/EC24Jun.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter" style="border: 0px solid black;" title="Terry's Keys by Kim Beckham" src="https://www.rattle.com/ekphrasis/EC24Jun.jpg" alt="Terry's Keys by Kim Beckham, photograph of keys hanging on a fence at a beach" /></a></p>
<blockquote>
<p>Image: &#8220;Terry&#8217;s Keys&#8221; by <a href="https://www.wachusettphotos.com/">Kim Beckham</a>. &#8220;What You Thought You Lost&#8221; was written by <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/wendy-videlock">Wendy Videlock</a> for <em>Rattle’</em>s Ekphrastic Challenge, June 2024, and selected as the Editor&#8217;s Choice.</p>
</blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<div class="line">What you thought you lost along the way</div>
<div class="line">hangs in the air like a prayer</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">May you find your way home</div>
<div class="line">may the doors swing open wide</div>
<div class="line">            from the out and the in</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">              side</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">under a wide open sky</div>
<div class="line">May you lose</div>
<div class="line">            may you find,</div>
<div class="line">may you know</div>
<div class="line">              in the core</div>
<div class="line">of your weathered soul your old</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">and your new sign</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">May every stranger on the path</div>
<div class="line">become the one who</div>
<div class="line">                        stopped</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">to hang something you thought</div>
<div class="line">you lost in the air</div>
<div class="line">              by a thread like an ancient</div>
<div class="line">pagan prayer</div>
<div class="line">            like some kind of</div>
<div class="line">elder</div>
<div class="line">          warm-eyed</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">guardian was standing there.</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/VidelockLost.mp3"></audio></figure>

Ghazal: Like a Prayer

Ekphrastic Challenge

Political Action

What You Thought You Lost

<div class="line">Gratitude, too.</div>
<div class="line">The only flippin&#8217; truth</div>
<div class="line">is everything moves</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">says the moon, hovering</div>
<div class="line">over every mantra,</div>
<div class="line">every sparrow,</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">every dollar, every</div>
<div class="line">Congo, every nation,</div>
<div class="line">every little good intention.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">The more difficult the world</div>
<div class="line">the greater the imperative</div>
<div class="line">toward blame,</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">toward distraction,</div>
<div class="line">toward impossible heights</div>
<div class="line">and humble strings</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">of twinkle lights.</div>
<div class="line">My love, let us vow</div>
<div class="line">that through the winter</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">we shall pause by the river</div>
<div class="line">where below the frozen surface</div>
<div class="line">surely tiny fish are feeding.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">Let us make a practice</div>
<div class="line">of coming to bear</div>
<div class="line">the weather,</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">of gathering by the fire,</div>
<div class="line">of reading to one another</div>
<div class="line">as the sparrow wears</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">her feather, as the moon</div>
<div class="line">resolves to move,</div>
<div class="line">as the body knows</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">surrender, as the leaves</div>
<div class="line">believe September,</div>
<div class="line">as rhyme succumbs</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">to reason, as the pause</div>
<div class="line">to remember</div>
<div class="line">descends upon the season.</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/VidelockTruth.mp3"></audio></figure>

Living the Chemical Life

Poets Respond

Jeopardy

The Truth Is a Nimble Little Creature

<div class="line">You’ve been the wolf, you’ve been the bear,</div>
<div class="line">you were the grass when I was air,</div>
<div class="line">the hush of the lake, eyes and lips,</div>
<div class="line">a shyness at my fingertips,</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">a motion that knew when to slow,</div>
<div class="line">the forest where I always go;</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">and now you are the windowsill</div>
<div class="line">I rest my elbows on until</div>
<div class="line">the night grows dark and I can’t see</div>
<div class="line">these silhouettes of you and me.</div>


Report from a Distance

We Exist Inside Each Other

Of You

<div class="line">It makes sense in every sense</div>
<div class="line">of the word</div>
<div class="line">to turn the lights oﬀ</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">for the song bird,</div>
<div class="line">that she may ﬁnd her way.</div>
<div class="line">True, too, for the waterfowl,</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">the barn owl, the cactus wren—</div>
<div class="line">even the mouse prefers</div>
<div class="line">a darkened house</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">in which to nibble her grains.</div>
<div class="line">It’s even true</div>
<div class="line">the ﬁddler’s tune</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">will only begin to dance</div>
<div class="line">when under a subtle</div>
<div class="line">crescent moon.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line"><em>If not for the dark, no spark, </em></div>
<div class="line">says the sparrow and</div>
<div class="line">the meadowlark—</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line"><em>beware the ones </em></div>
<div class="line">who fear the dark, who refuse</div>
<div class="line">to look a shadow in the eye,</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">who have no interest</div>
<div class="line">in the sky unless it’s rendered</div>
<div class="line">itself so blue</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">it won’t reveal</div>
<div class="line">the distance between it</div>
<div class="line">and you. It isn’t the moral</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">but the heart of the story:</div>
<div class="line">the raven’s claw, the falcon’s beak</div>
<div class="line">the eagle’s scree,</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">the rotting little memento mori.</div>
<div class="line">There is no wing,</div>
<div class="line">no blissful ﬂight,</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">no ﬁnding your way,</div>
<div class="line">no resting gently in the nest</div>
<div class="line">and nuzzling your little egg</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">without the calling</div>
<div class="line">of the rest: the grief song,</div>
<div class="line">the suddenly wan,</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">the fallen star, the weight of loss,</div>
<div class="line">the lights that flicker,</div>
<div class="line">and turn off.</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/VidelockBirds.mp3"></audio></figure>

Little Richard

Love’s Executioner

Lights Turn Off in May at the Gateway Arch to Assist Migratory Birds

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Use ID to return only children. Use 0 to return only top-level items.

Specify objects whose parent is in an array.

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Limit result set to products with a specific average rating. Must be between 1 and 5

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The parent of the node. The parent object can be of various types

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The globally unique identifier of the product_variation object.

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name

date

The local modified time for a post. If a post was recently updated the modified field will change to match the corresponding time.

modified

format

description

Product variation SKU (Stock-keeping unit)

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salePrice

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Connection between the ProductVariation type and the ProductVariation type

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Cursor used along with the "first" argument to reference where in the dataset to get data

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Unique cache key to be produced when this query is stored in an object cache. Default is 'core'.

Term ID to retrieve child terms of. If multiple taxonomies are passed, $child_of is ignored. Default 0.

True to limit results to terms that have no children. This parameter has no effect on non-hierarchical taxonomies. Default false.

Retrieve terms where the description is LIKE the input value. Default empty.

Array of term ids to exclude. If $include is non-empty, $exclude is ignored. Default empty array.

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Array of term ids to include. Default empty array.

Array of names to return term(s) for. Default empty.

Retrieve terms where the name is LIKE the input value. Default empty.

Array of object IDs. Results will be limited to terms associated with these objects.

Direction the connection should be ordered in

Field(s) to order terms by. Defaults to 'name'.

Whether to pad the quantity of a term's children in the quantity of each term's "count" object variable. Default false.

Parent term ID to retrieve direct-child terms of. Default empty.

Search criteria to match terms. Will be SQL-formatted with wildcards before and after. Default empty.

Array of slugs to return term(s) for. Default empty.

Array of term taxonomy IDs, to match when querying terms.

Whether to prime meta caches for matched terms. Default true.

Connection between the ProductVariation type and the TermNode type

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before

first

last

Connection between the Product type and the TermNode type

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Connection between the ProductVariation type and the visibleProduct type

Connection between the Product type and the visibleProduct type

visibleProducts

Connection between the ProductVariation type and the shippingClass type

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<div class="line">In all this calm,</div>
<div class="line">in all this mist,</div>
<div class="line">these vague shaped</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">continents</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">begin to drift.</div>
<div class="line">A finger lifts,</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">falls again.</div>
<div class="line">A foghorn sounds,</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">passionless.</div>
<div class="line">Do you wonder</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">what we are</div>
<div class="line">in all this calm,</div>
<div class="line">in all this mist.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Wolf prints.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Red clay.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">A slender wrist.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Murder. Magic.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Ballet.</div>


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