by Ann Humphries<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I will arise and go to Edisto
to a shabby-chic inn with rocking chairs
on a pastel porch with beachfront views,
and morning espresso with fresh fruit and scones
and cheer on children cartwheeling on the beach,
and, at sunset, I will bathe in turquoise air
and plein-air paint the ravenous gulls
strafing the packed hulls of shrimp boats
then inhale the marsh where graceful herons glide
and redwing blackbirds boast, \u201cCon-ca-ree,\u201d
and evenings, engage in lively tete-a-tete
(because those are the rules) and extol
the lacy-petticoat waves with the incoming tide
and order fried oysters and local beer,
then adjourn to the shore to count the falling stars
immersed in the indigo velvet of night,
the sounds of calling owls return me to rest
and I shall sleep with windows open to surf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ann Humphries is a poet, hiker, birder from Columbia, SC. Her first collection, An Eclipse and A Butcher,\u00a0debuted in\u00a02020, and her second collection, My Blind Obsession,\u00a0will be released November 2025 .\u00a0Most recently, she\u00a0has been featured in Coast Lines: A Poetry Anthology, Kaklak Anthology, and the 40th anniversary of The James Dickey Review.\u00a0She is a SC Humanities Speaker\/Scholar, a South Carolina Notable Woman, and her papers are archived at USC’s Special Collections. Read her work at https:\/\/annhumphriespoet.wordpress.com\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Ann Humphries I will arise and go to Edistoto a shabby-chic inn with rocking chairson a pastel porch with beachfront views,and morning espresso with fresh fruit and sconesand cheer on children cartwheeling on the beach,and, at sunset, I will bathe in turquoise air and plein-air paint the ravenous gullsstrafing the packed hulls of shrimp boatsthen inhale the marsh where graceful herons glide and redwing blackbirds boast, \u201cCon-ca-ree,\u201dand evenings, engage in lively tete-a-tete(because those are the rules) and extolthe lacy-petticoat waves with the incoming tideand order fried oysters and local beer,then adjourn to the shore to count the falling stars immersed in the indigo velvet of night,the sounds of calling owls return me to restand I shall sleep with windows open to surf. Ann Humphries is a poet, hiker, birder from Columbia, SC. Her first collection, An Eclipse and A Butcher,\u00a0debuted in\u00a02020, and her second collection, My Blind Obsession,\u00a0will be released November 2025 .\u00a0Most recently, she\u00a0has been featured in Coast Lines: A Poetry Anthology, Kaklak Anthology, and the 40th anniversary of The James Dickey Review.\u00a0She is a SC Humanities Speaker\/Scholar, a South Carolina Notable Woman, and her papers are archived at USC’s Special Collections. Read her work at https:\/\/annhumphriespoet.wordpress.com\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-18-2025"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}