{"id":10976,"date":"2022-03-22T22:07:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/february-2022-winner-award-of-awesomeness\/"},"modified":"2023-02-15T16:18:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T11:18:55","slug":"love-poem-for-every-animal-on-earth-by-donna-kane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/editorials\/love-poem-for-every-animal-on-earth-by-donna-kane\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Poem for Every Animal on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Gravity is a tailor\nstitching planets around stars,\npearl buttons cinched tight,\n\ncinched tight in space\nlike hearts inside the rib cage\nof the elephant or shrew.\n\nThe elephant or shrew,\nthe me or the you; the number\nof heartbeats the same for us all.\n\nThe same for us all though some take them fast,\nsome take them slow. What a beautiful rhythm,\ncan you feel us? Held together in this world.\n\nTogether in this world.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-background is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"background-color:#0000000f;padding-top:2rem;padding-bottom:2rem\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Bios<\/h2>\n\n\n            <div class=\"wp-block-media-text bio is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-bottom is-image-fill\" style=\"grid-template-columns:33% auto\"> \r\n                <figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Donna-Kane.jpg);background-position:50% 50%\">\r\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Donna-Kane.jpg\" alt=\"a smiling woman with shoulder-length blonde hair stands in front of an orange background\" \/>\r\n                <\/figure>\r\n                <div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\r\n                    <h3 class=\"author-bio-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/editorials\/creator\/donna-kane\/\">Donna Kane<\/a><\/h3>\r\n                    <p><strong>Donna Kane<\/strong> is a writer living in Rolla, BC. Her poems, short fiction, reviews and essays have been published widely. She is the author of the non-fiction book, Summer of the Horse, and of three books of poetry, most recently Orrery, a finalist for the 2020 Governor General\u2019s Literary Award. Poems from Orrery were also featured in A Sky Full of Poems with Dava Sobel presented by Hampton\u2019s Observatory and Guild Hall, in Voyages to Mars: Dreaming, a podcast for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, and a poem from the collection was selected for Vancouver\u2019s 2021 Poetry in Transit program. In 2020 she received the British Columbia Medal of Good Citizenship for her \u201cexceptional dedication to discover community potential and empower ownership through arts and culture.\u201d [provided for the poem &#8220;Love Poem for Every Animal on Earth\u201d]<\/p>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n          <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gravity is a tailor stitching planets around stars, pearl buttons cinched tight, cinched tight in space like hearts inside the rib cage of the elephant or shrew. The elephant or shrew, the me or the you; the number of heartbeats the same for us all. The same for us all though some take them fast, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"1540","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1540],"tags":[],"genre":[150],"publisher":[],"issue":[],"poet-in-residence":[],"series":[3262,3148],"topic":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10976"},{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=10976"},{"taxonomy":"publisher","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publisher?post=10976"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=10976"},{"taxonomy":"poet-in-residence","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet-in-residence?post=10976"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=10976"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}