{"id":263,"date":"2016-01-28T14:07:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T20:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/?p=263"},"modified":"2016-01-28T14:07:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T20:07:20","slug":"wood-for-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood For Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Brady Robinson<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Third Place of the David Middleton Poetry Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trees stand for trees and roots drink for leaves, like the tired spouse who wrests pot and sponge from stand to stove to cook and clean for time yet spent. The child lives to dance, loss flitting in his core when Mom and Dad walk the bend. Red knows blood no more than blood knows the cut from which it bled. Gray knows black from white for it is not God to be gray, but sad to mix the sky, which drains the clouds and floods the ground, sad to mix with pale sun rays. Trees like a fire that spreads, dries, and cracks them, like worn skin on a cold day when food is scarce and the axe must swing. Wood rears and groans back at the blade.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_264\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-264\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/files\/Fashon-e1454011483859-220x188.jpg\" alt=\"Fashion Jenifer Richardson\" width=\"220\" height=\"188\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-264 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 220px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 220\/188;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fashion<br \/>Jenifer Richardson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brady Robinson Third Place of the David Middleton Poetry Award Trees stand for trees and roots drink for leaves, like the tired spouse who wrests pot and sponge from stand to stove to cook and clean for time yet spent. The child lives to dance, loss flitting in his core when Mom and Dad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wood For Fire - Mosaic Literary Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wood For Fire - Mosaic Literary Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Brady Robinson Third Place of the David Middleton Poetry Award Trees stand for trees and roots drink for leaves, like the tired spouse who wrests pot and sponge from stand to stove to cook and clean for time yet spent. The child lives to dance, loss flitting in his core when Mom and Dad [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mosaic Literary Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-01-28T20:07:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/files\/Fashon-e1454011483859-220x188.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nicholls State\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nicholls State\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nicholls State\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#\/schema\/person\/073e094613b8d622621e55e100baecd3\"},\"headline\":\"Wood For Fire\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-01-28T20:07:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/\"},\"wordCount\":152,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/files\/Fashon-e1454011483859-220x188.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Poetry\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/\",\"name\":\"Wood For Fire - Mosaic Literary Magazine\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/files\/Fashon-e1454011483859-220x188.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-01-28T20:07:20+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/files\/Fashon-e1454011483859-220x188.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/files\/Fashon-e1454011483859-220x188.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Wood For Fire\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/\",\"name\":\"Mosaic Literary Magazine\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Mosaic Literary Magazine\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2025\/04\/cropped-cropped-Jaci-Header-JPEG.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2025\/04\/cropped-cropped-Jaci-Header-JPEG.jpg\",\"width\":490,\"height\":164,\"caption\":\"Mosaic Literary Magazine\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#\/schema\/person\/073e094613b8d622621e55e100baecd3\",\"name\":\"Nicholls State\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3328047cdfb3020290ce068d6fb7721f49d0439b10d4d4484fd91e22681411a4?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3328047cdfb3020290ce068d6fb7721f49d0439b10d4d4484fd91e22681411a4?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3328047cdfb3020290ce068d6fb7721f49d0439b10d4d4484fd91e22681411a4?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Nicholls State\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/author\/webmanager\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Wood For Fire - Mosaic Literary Magazine","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Wood For Fire - Mosaic Literary Magazine","og_description":"By Brady Robinson Third Place of the David Middleton Poetry Award Trees stand for trees and roots drink for leaves, like the tired spouse who wrests pot and sponge from stand to stove to cook and clean for time yet spent. The child lives to dance, loss flitting in his core when Mom and Dad [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/","og_site_name":"Mosaic Literary Magazine","article_published_time":"2016-01-28T20:07:20+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/files\/Fashon-e1454011483859-220x188.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Nicholls State","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Nicholls State","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/"},"author":{"name":"Nicholls State","@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#\/schema\/person\/073e094613b8d622621e55e100baecd3"},"headline":"Wood For Fire","datePublished":"2016-01-28T20:07:20+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/"},"wordCount":152,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/files\/Fashon-e1454011483859-220x188.jpg","articleSection":["Poetry"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/","url":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/","name":"Wood For Fire - Mosaic Literary Magazine","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/files\/Fashon-e1454011483859-220x188.jpg","datePublished":"2016-01-28T20:07:20+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/files\/Fashon-e1454011483859-220x188.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/files\/Fashon-e1454011483859-220x188.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/wood-for-fire\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Wood For Fire"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/","name":"Mosaic Literary Magazine","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#organization","name":"Mosaic Literary Magazine","url":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2025\/04\/cropped-cropped-Jaci-Header-JPEG.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2025\/04\/cropped-cropped-Jaci-Header-JPEG.jpg","width":490,"height":164,"caption":"Mosaic Literary Magazine"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/#\/schema\/person\/073e094613b8d622621e55e100baecd3","name":"Nicholls State","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3328047cdfb3020290ce068d6fb7721f49d0439b10d4d4484fd91e22681411a4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3328047cdfb3020290ce068d6fb7721f49d0439b10d4d4484fd91e22681411a4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3328047cdfb3020290ce068d6fb7721f49d0439b10d4d4484fd91e22681411a4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Nicholls State"},"url":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/author\/webmanager\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}