{"id":39398,"date":"2026-01-23T13:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/?p=39398"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:31:18","slug":"96-a-poem-by-bruce-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/96-a-poem-by-bruce-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"96: A Poem by Bruce Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Found in\u00a0Willow Springs 96<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a finalist in the 2025 Surrealist Prize<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Clouds<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

When\u00a0the\u00a0echo\u00a0returned,\u00a0it\u00a0sounded\u00a0pale,
confused, weary from the journey, so I set out
a dish of milk, watched\u00a0the\u00a0white\u00a0rise\u00a0into\u00a0a
cloud\u00a0and\u00a0float\u00a0a\u00a0while before it drizzled back\u00a0
into the bowl. I would never know what it
meant to say. Only that it needed me to listen,
tilt my head,\u00a0share\u00a0the fire. I must have needed
to listen in return, to lean in like a mirror\u00a0or a
mother before our names have found them.\u00a0
That\u00a0was\u00a0years\u00a0ago,\u00a0but\u00a0I\u00a0would\u00a0hear\u00a0the\u00a0echo\u00a0often.\u00a0
I would see, at the curb, on the bus, in the
lobby of\u00a0emergency\u00a0care,\u00a0lips\u00a0move\u00a0with
barely\u00a0a\u00a0sound. As\u00a0if\u00a0the\u00a0lightness\u00a0of\u00a0the
words\u00a0took\u00a0them\u00a0farther, like a prayer worn
down to the air in the center.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Bruce Bond<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39399,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39398\/revisions\/39399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}