{"id":647,"date":"2010-04-24T08:45:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T08:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=647"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:44:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T13:44:27","slug":"new-haibun-roger-jones-is-waiting-for-labor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/new-haibun-roger-jones-is-waiting-for-labor-day\/","title":{"rendered":"New haibun: Roger Jones is waiting for Labor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"


Labor Day

<\/span>
To my surprise, the boss tells me I can have the whole weekend off. <\/span>
          I elect to drive home to see family \u2013 seventy miles north. Little traffic, mainly farmland, some modest towns, a small lake or two. <\/span>
          I drive with windows down, a slack late-season feel in the muted air; a laggard sense of things flowing Elsewhere.  <\/span>
          Back at school, my friends are partying.<\/span>
          The moon rides shotgun, thin sickle blade tilted just above the dark tree line in the west. 

<\/span>
          autumn cottonfield<\/span>
          halfway up a row<\/span>
          an empty tractor<\/span>



* Roger Jones<\/span> says “I teach at Texas State University and am poetry editor of
\nthe <\/span>Texas Review<\/span>.  I've published haibun in <\/span>Contemporary Haibun Online,
\n Lynx, Frogpond, Modern Haiku<\/span> and <\/span>Haibun Today<\/span>.<\/span>

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Labor DayTo my surprise, the boss tells me I can have the whole weekend off.           I elect to drive home to see family \u2013 seventy miles north. Little traffic, mainly farmland, some modest towns, a small lake or two.           I drive with windows down, a slack late-season feel in the muted air; a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haibun-tanka-haiku-haiga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24064,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/24064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}