{"id":1679,"date":"2015-07-20T18:17:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T23:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2015-08-23T04:53:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T09:53:48","slug":"terry-ofner-mailbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"Terry Ofner: &#8220;Mailbox&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"tb f41\">Terry Ofner<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"tb f41\"><span class=\"tx\" style=\"color: #800000;\">Mailbox<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"tb f41\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tb f41\"><span class=\"tx\">Clare regards the mailbox torn from its post<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tb f41\"><span class=\"tx\">and flung by the storm through the living room window<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tb f41\"><span class=\"tx\">and wonders if the mailman\u2014he\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx f45\">is<\/span><span class=\"tx\">\u00a0a man\u2014<\/span><span class=\"tx\">will take the time to maneuver around<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tb f41\"><span class=\"tx\">the downed tree limbs that litter the gravel driveway,<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tb f41\"><span class=\"tx\">step carefully through the broken glass,<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tb f41\"><span class=\"tx\">walk across the sodden Persian carpet,<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tb f41\"><span class=\"tx\">and place the mail in the box now embedded<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tb f41\"><span class=\"tx\">in the upholstery of the couch, flag bent,<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tb f41\"><span class=\"tx\">lid open to the ceiling like a hungry baby bird.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tb f41\"><\/div>\n<p><code><br \/>\n<br<br \/><\/code><\/p>\n<div class=\"tb f41\"><em><span class=\"tx\"><strong>Terry Ofner<\/strong> lives in Indianapolis with an alfalfa field just the other side of the backyard\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx\">fence.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<p><code><\/p>\n<p><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Ofner Mailbox Clare regards the mailbox torn from its post and flung by the storm through the living room window and wonders if the mailman\u2014he\u00a0is\u00a0a man\u2014will take the time to maneuver around the downed tree limbs that litter the gravel driveway, step carefully through the broken glass, walk across the sodden Persian carpet, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[196],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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