{"id":3196,"date":"2026-01-03T21:57:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3196"},"modified":"2026-01-11T08:37:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:37:47","slug":"sunday-morning-verses-kindred-spirits-1-4-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3196","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY VERSES: ‘Kindred Spirits’ (1\/4\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"

By RAHN ADAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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TIMBERLEY G. ADAMS’S limited-edition print of “Kindred Spirits” (1990)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Crossing Mad Inlet to get there \/ was what made the trek \/ An adventure on an otherwise ordinary day.<\/p>\n

If your sojourn on Bird Island \/ wasn’t timed with the tide, \/ Your return might be delayed for hours<\/p>\n

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While you waited on the beach \/ for the meandering moon \/ And the arcing sun to align for your benefit.<\/p>\n

So then you’d wander on down \/ to the driftwood bench in the dunes, \/ To see what other dawdlers had said<\/p>\n

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MAD INLET once ebbed and flowed here years ago.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

About getting themselves stranded \/ for wanting to be in touch \/ With limitless sky, salted winds, and holy sea.<\/p>\n

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But storms through the years \/ have closed Mad Inlet \/ And have posted a shiftless sign in the sands of time.<\/p>\n

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It’s almost too easy now \u2014 \/ a dog walk to the box and back, \/ Stopping by dunes on a showy evening \/ for what is lovely, dark, and deep.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By RAHN ADAMS Crossing Mad Inlet to get there \/ was what made the trek \/ An adventure on an otherwise ordinary day. If your sojourn on Bird Island \/ wasn’t timed with the tide, \/ Your return might be delayed for hours While you waited on the beach \/ for the meandering moon \/ … Continue reading SUNDAY VERSES: ‘Kindred Spirits’ (1\/4\/2026)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3239,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions\/3239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}