{"id":15990,"date":"2017-11-01T01:10:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T06:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=16178"},"modified":"2017-10-29T16:29:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T21:29:20","slug":"xvii-the-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2017\/11\/01\/xvii-the-star\/","title":{"rendered":"(xvii the star)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-16179\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/poem2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"474\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Plantagenet Cherokee', serif;\">one day i take the train to the ocean. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Plantagenet Cherokee', serif;\">donovan is just bringing in his boat.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Plantagenet Cherokee', serif;\">his body is sweat shiny &amp; glowing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Plantagenet Cherokee', serif;\">donovan knows all about constellations.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Plantagenet Cherokee', serif;\">donovan is just bringing in his boat.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Plantagenet Cherokee', serif;\">the sea air is salty &amp; clean &amp; fresh.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Plantagenet Cherokee', serif;\">donovan knows about constellations.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Plantagenet Cherokee', serif;\">he says the stars shine all day &amp; all night.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Plantagenet Cherokee', serif;\">the sea air is salt &amp; clean &amp; fresh.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Plantagenet Cherokee', serif;\">i think about everything he told me.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Plantagenet Cherokee', serif;\">he said the stars shine all day &amp; all night.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a> <span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Plantagenet Cherokee', serif;\">i swim until my teeth are chattering.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Plantagenet Cherokee', serif;\">i dry myself off &amp; put on lotion.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Plantagenet Cherokee', serif;\">one day i take the train to the ocean.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Plantagenet Cherokee', serif;\">***<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Plantagenet Cherokee', serif;\">About the Author:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-16163\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Polly-1-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"126\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><b>Polly MacDavid<\/b><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">lives in Buffalo, New York at the moment but that could easily change, since she is a gypsy at heart. Like a gypsy, she is attracted to the divinatory arts, as well as camp fires and dancing barefoot. She has three cats who all help her with her magic.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Her philosophy about religion and magic is that it must be thoroughly based in science and logic. She is Dianic Wiccan and she is solitary.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">She blogs at\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #b96d00;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/silverapplequeen.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">silverapplequeen.wordpress.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">. She writes about general life, politics and poetry. She is writing a novel about sex, drugs and recovery.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; one day i take the train to the ocean. donovan is just bringing in his boat. his body is sweat shiny &amp; glowing. donovan knows all about constellations. &nbsp; donovan is just bringing in his boat. the sea air is salty &amp; clean &amp; fresh. donovan knows about constellations. he says the stars shine all day &amp; all night. &nbsp; the sea air is salt &amp; clean &amp; fresh. i think about everything he told me. he said the stars shine all day &amp; all night. i swim until my teeth are chattering. &nbsp; i dry myself off &amp; put on lotion. one day i take the train to the ocean. &nbsp; *** About the Author: &nbsp; Polly MacDavid\u00a0lives in Buffalo, New York at the moment but that could easily change, since she is a gypsy at heart. Like a gypsy, she is attracted to the divinatory arts, as well as camp fires and dancing barefoot. She has three cats who all help her with her magic. Her philosophy about religion and magic is that it must be thoroughly based in science and logic. She is Dianic Wiccan and she is solitary. She blogs at\u00a0silverapplequeen.wordpress.com. She writes about general life, politics and poetry. She is writing a novel about sex, drugs and recovery. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}