(for hour 20\u2014this is a blend! I wanted to do the 3-repeating-lines prompt from hour 3, so it\u2019s mixed with the \u201cwalking at night\u201d AND image prompts of hour 20\u2026because typing poetry at this hour makes one giddy like that.)<\/p>\n
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Fetch Her the Star<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bianca requested of Bill merely one, still-bright star<\/p>\n Small enough to fit on the curio cabinet\u2019s bottom shelf<\/p>\n (where light was needed most because Bill had bought a cabinet without LEDs)<\/p>\n Yet with enough mass to attract the Ladies Club members\u2019 eyes<\/p>\n when they\u2019d gather Tuesday evening to complete protest signs<\/p>\n <\/p>\n She asked so little of him after 28 months of marriage<\/p>\n <\/p>\n With all the time she saved Bill employing a local DBE to tend the lawn and pool, could he not take an hour for an errand?<\/p>\n Why did her simple petition require an argument,<\/p>\n tears to mar her facial and eye art,<\/p>\n and a snide remark about Gil-Estel?<\/p>\n (his references to fantasy films too often confused her to frustration)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n She asked so little of him after 28 months of marriage<\/p>\n <\/p>\n While Bianca strode to her private spa off the master bedroom where she could repair her eyes,<\/p>\n Bill collected his 32-month-old son\u2019s favorite toy, and walked into a moonlit night<\/p>\n He pointed at the stars, asking, \u201cwhich one do you think Mother would like?\u201d<\/p>\n The child giggled; he understood more than the vapid woman they left behind<\/p>\n <\/p>\n She asked too much of him after 112 weeks of marriage<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (for hour 20\u2014this is a blend! I wanted to do the 3-repeating-lines prompt from hour 3, so it\u2019s mixed with the \u201cwalking at night\u201d AND image prompts of hour 20\u2026because typing poetry at this hour makes one giddy like that.) Fetch Her the Star…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[3019,1123,1660],"class_list":["post-101066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-hour-20-prompt","tag-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101066","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\/1426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101111,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101066\/revisions\/101111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}