{"id":1109,"date":"2026-06-17T22:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/the-punctum\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T07:17:18","slug":"crossing-the-stream-by-dr-yvonne-wong-division-of-arts-and-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/the-punctum\/blog\/2026\/06\/17\/crossing-the-stream-by-dr-yvonne-wong-division-of-arts-and-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing the Stream &#8212; by Dr. Yvonne Wong, Division of Arts and Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p> <strong>Keywords:<\/strong> Poetry, changes, chances, action, inaction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Accepted:<\/strong> June 11, 2026; <strong>Online first:<\/strong> June 17, 2026; <strong>Published:<\/strong> July 13, 2026 (TBC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mountains, with their shoulders<br>Peaked, across the stream, soaked<br>In the marsh of ink,<br>Still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Air is all that\u2019s floating<br>flickering squeezing smashing.<br>The feet stand still, the breaths sound still.<br>The eyes, still stale in a stillness,<br>Anchoring, still a whimper<br>locked by the still moonlight sealed<br>like, or through, a watermark<br>that can, still perhaps, chisel and tilt the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The feet stand still, the breaths sound still.<br>The wind fingers, the pines purr.<br>A drop of the marshy green,<br>falls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keywords: Poetry, changes, chances, action, inaction Accepted: June 11, 2026; Online first: June 17, 2026; Published: July 13, 2026 (TBC) Mountains, with their shouldersPeaked, across the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/the-punctum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/the-punctum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/the-punctum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/the-punctum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/the-punctum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/the-punctum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/the-punctum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/the-punctum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/the-punctum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/the-punctum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}