{"id":100732,"date":"2021-06-27T03:24:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100732"},"modified":"2021-06-27T04:34:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T08:34:02","slug":"understory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/understory\/","title":{"rendered":"Understory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Understory<\/p>\n<p>This morning I fell in love<br \/>\nwith the Tropical Rainforest shower gel<br \/>\nI bought yesterday in the dollar store.<br \/>\nNo mind to curtains of snow falling<br \/>\noutside my bathroom window, I was<br \/>\ntransported through the steamy veil<br \/>\nto stand beneath a misty canopy of trees,<br \/>\ncaw caw of birds, screech of monkeys<br \/>\ntrapezing from limb to limb, air heavy<br \/>\nwith humidity as I inhale the heady scent<br \/>\nof jasmine and mango.<\/p>\n<p>I step into the spray, my feet hover<br \/>\nover a floor of ferns and loam adapted<br \/>\nto low light. I shiver in sheer delight.<br \/>\nA lustless devoid of compromise, and<br \/>\nlacking a vow of monogamy, I revel in<br \/>\nthe freedom to bask in naked admiration<br \/>\nof a scented mirage.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, I may find myself falling<br \/>\nfor the new and improved polar mint<br \/>\nfresh taste of toothpaste&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>how I love falling<br \/>\nin love.<\/p>\n<p>~ J R Turek<br \/>\nJune 27, 2021 Hour 19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understory This morning I fell in love with the Tropical Rainforest shower gel I bought yesterday in the dollar store. No mind to curtains of snow falling outside my bathroom window, I was transported through the steamy veil to stand beneath a misty canopy of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101212,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100732\/revisions\/101212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}