{"id":101007,"date":"2021-06-27T04:42:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T08:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101007"},"modified":"2021-07-12T13:57:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T17:57:33","slug":"the-edge-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-edge-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"The Edge of light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>POEM 20<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pulling my sweater closer as I round the trail around Sherwood Mall on an unusually frigid, June night.<\/p>\n<p>The sky is deep purple with a slice of silver moon. The constellations are pinpoints decorating the night.<\/p>\n<p>My footfalls echo into the distance and the chill in the air deepens.<\/p>\n<p>A cluster of fireflies in the grassy growth on the path&#8217;s edge, flitter and blink with cool green light.<\/p>\n<p>So many sounds around me, crickets chirp, cicadas scream then go silent as I pass under the trees<\/p>\n<p>bullfrogs croak from the shallow ditch. Zukey my faithful Schnoodle trots at my side.<\/p>\n<p>The jingle from his tags filling any space left for sounds in the night.<\/p>\n<p>The mall is closed but the stores are faintly lit giving the darkness a fringe of safety.<\/p>\n<p>I love this time of the evening, as the world settles and breathes softer like a baby\u00a0 put down for the night.<\/p>\n<p>The darkness is like a void around me as I bid it goodnight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POEM 20 Pulling my sweater closer as I round the trail around Sherwood Mall on an unusually frigid, June night. The sky is deep purple with a slice of silver moon. The constellations are pinpoints decorating the night. My footfalls echo into the distance and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101007","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\/3452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101007"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104361,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101007\/revisions\/104361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}