It’s a full moon, five in the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elmer and I walk down a path of bark chips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We spooked the old beaver in the creek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The heron posed where he always does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We’re taking a longer walk than usual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s a full moon and a sky so clear I can see the Sea of Tranquility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I hear a crunching noise behind me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elmer and I turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s a homeless man riding<\/p>\n\n\n\n
a black bicycle at breakneck speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bark chips fly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No lights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Right toward us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He’s bearded and wearing<\/p>\n\n\n\n
a black stocking cap<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and black duster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I jump out of the way and pull Elmer with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I shout GOOD MORNING!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He says nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The rider veers off to another path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He leans deep into the turn<\/p>\n\n\n\n
like riders do in velodromes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I watch him cross a bridge<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and pop a mini wheelie<\/p>\n\n\n\n
under the full moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It lights him up like that scene from ET<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Only he’s on the ground,<\/p>\n\n\n\n going somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s a full moon, five in the morning. Elmer and I walk down a path of bark chips. We spooked the old beaver in the creek. The heron posed where he always does. We’re taking a longer walk than usual. Why not? It’s a full moon and a sky so clear I can see the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-poetry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8805,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8802\/revisions\/8805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}