{"id":1455,"date":"2009-04-20T10:03:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T14:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/berkshires-news\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2009-04-20T10:03:28","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T14:03:28","slug":"earbud-poem-by-bill-holm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/earbud-poem-by-bill-holm\/","title":{"rendered":"Earbud &#8211; poem by Bill Holm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Earbud<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earbud&#8211;a tiny marble sheathed in foam<br \/>\nto wear like an interior earring so you<br \/>\ncan enjoy private noises wherever you go,<br \/>\nprotected from any sudden silence.<br \/>\nOnly check your batteries, then copy<br \/>\na thousand secret songs and stories<br \/>\non the tiny pod you carry in your pocket.<br \/>\nYou are safe now from other noises made<br \/>\nby other people, other machines, by chance,<br \/>\nnoises you have not chosen as your own.<br \/>\nTo get your attention, I touch your arm<br \/>\nto show you the tornado or the polar bear.<br \/>\nSometimes I catch you humming or talking to the air<br \/>\nas if to a shrunken lover waiting in your ear.<\/p>\n<h3>American Life in Poetry: Column 213 &#8211; By Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004-2006<\/h3>\n<p>Bill Holm, one of the most intelligent and engaging writers of our northern plains, died on February 25th. He will be greatly missed. He and I were of the same generation and we shared the same sense of wonder, amusement, and skepticism about the course of technology. I don&#8217;t yet own an Earbud, but I won&#8217;t need to, now that we have Bill&#8217;s poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earbud &#8211; poem by Bill Holm; American Life in Poetry: Column 213, By Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004-2006. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}