{"id":3514,"date":"2026-02-14T17:34:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3514"},"modified":"2026-02-15T16:12:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:12:51","slug":"sunday-verses-bright-house-2-15-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3514","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY VERSES: &#8216;Bright House&#8217; (2\/15\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By RAHN ADAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3516\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3516\" style=\"width: 115px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brighthousefull-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3516\" src=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brighthousefull-258x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brighthousefull-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brighthousefull-881x1024.jpg 881w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brighthousefull-768x893.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brighthousefull-1321x1536.jpg 1321w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brighthousefull-1761x2048.jpg 1761w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 115px) 100vw, 115px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8216;BRIGHT HOUSE,&#8217; acrylic painting by Timberley Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The setting sun shone \/ in the window \/ of the great room \/ with the cathedral ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>Every day at dusk \/ we walked together \/ past this bright house \/ on Fairmont Street<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3517\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3517\" style=\"width: 88px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brighthousecloseup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3517\" src=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brighthousecloseup-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"88\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brighthousecloseup-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brighthousecloseup-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brighthousecloseup-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brighthousecloseup-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brighthousecloseup.jpg 1110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 88px) 100vw, 88px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HIDING IN BACK, the print for my 2\/22 poem<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As we headed back \/ from the beach strand \/ or the tennis courts \/ on the island.<\/p>\n<p>From the water tower \/ to the waterway, \/ the unmarked pavement \/ ran south to north,<\/p>\n<p>Letting twilight die \/ a golden death \/ in the highest peak \/ of this vacant second home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By RAHN ADAMS The setting sun shone \/ in the window \/ of the great room \/ with the cathedral ceiling. Every day at dusk \/ we walked together \/ past this bright house \/ on Fairmont Street As we headed back \/ from the beach strand \/ or the tennis courts \/ on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3514\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SUNDAY VERSES: &#8216;Bright House&#8217; (2\/15\/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-3514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514","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=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3526,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions\/3526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}