{"id":5161,"date":"2015-03-16T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5161"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:29","slug":"home-a-poem-by-caleb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5161","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;HOME&#8221; &#8211; A POEM BY CALEB"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Caleb Gross<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150314_164833-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Banana trees\u00a0Glowing in the mid-day sunSlowly wave their wide leavesOver my head as my shoes squish\u00a0The jelly-like mudSmall meringa trees line the path -So unlike the corn fields behind my past home &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150314_162613-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I sprint onDodging the mangoes lying dead on the path -None of those in Indiana -The green painted concrete of the medical clinicA church two stories tall behind a fenceA soccer field spread out next to itCows grazingAll these blur togetherI pass another small house and a larger building<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150314_165522-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A grassy field with only a few trees in itThe gravel underneath my feet makes a <i>kirch kirch<\/i> soundThe smell of creole sauce and chicken make my stomach roarThe Haitian sun burns my neck\u00a0Like a furnaceThe plants lining the road prick my anklesAt lastI come to a swing set and benchA play areaNot unlike the one I had in IndianaI complete my runAnd as I stumble through the front door I call out,&#8221;I&#8217;m home&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150118_070259-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Caleb Gross Banana trees\u00a0Glowing in the mid-day sunSlowly wave their wide leavesOver my head as my shoes squish\u00a0The jelly-like mudSmall meringa trees line the path -So unlike the corn fields behind my past home &#8211; I sprint onDodging the mangoes lying dead on the path -None of those in Indiana -The green painted concrete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5166,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions\/5166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}