{"id":266,"date":"2014-04-29T01:48:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T01:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2014-07-15T19:39:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T00:39:22","slug":"266","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Ray Templeton: 2 Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Ray Templeton<\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\">A Short <\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Rain shakes out of the wind<br \/>\nwhipping grit and grass,<br \/>\nslicing trees in slow-motion<br \/>\nmonochrome that cuts to<br \/>\na long shot overhead<br \/>\nof the dog running,<br \/>\nraking snow-patches on the path<br \/>\ncurling out of sight on the hill,<br \/>\nas shouts sound off to one side, fading.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From a Siege Journal<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The only way in and out<br \/>\nwas across the frozen lake<br \/>\nbut word slipped back, of laden trucks<br \/>\nthat cracked the ice and dropped,<br \/>\nslow images, replayed in grainy dreams:<br \/>\na freight of flour or seeds or children,<br \/>\ndrifted and sinking, gone to the silt,<br \/>\nstones and swaying weeds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><br \/>\nRay Templeton<\/strong> is a writer and musician who was born and grew up in Scotland, lived briefly\u00a0<\/em><em>in Wales, then moved to the south of England where he has lived ever since, married to an \u00a0<\/em><em>Irishwoman.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Templeton A Short Rain shakes out of the wind whipping grit and grass, slicing trees in slow-motion monochrome that cuts to a long shot overhead of the dog running, raking snow-patches on the path curling out of sight on the hill, as shouts sound off to one side, fading. 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