{"id":101086,"date":"2021-06-27T04:11:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T08:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101086"},"modified":"2021-06-27T04:11:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T08:11:40","slug":"poem-viii-beast-of-a-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/poem-viii-beast-of-a-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem VIII: Beast of a Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My heartbeat is not a metronome.<br \/>\nIt beats erratically<br \/>\nthreatening to turn<br \/>\nmy ribcage into dust.<br \/>\nMy sternum fends itself with<br \/>\na sorry sword hanging off<br \/>\nof the end of it,<br \/>\nfor the xiphoid process can<br \/>\nonly pierce what is within<br \/>\nand I am only broken dreams.<br \/>\nI suppose God is trying to<br \/>\nexhume the<br \/>\ngrief out of my chest.<br \/>\nbut it bleeds into my vessels,<br \/>\nfills the cartridges of my metacarpals<br \/>\nand no matter how much I<br \/>\ndrain this ink<br \/>\nit still stains the melanin with sin.<br \/>\nI am not a saint but the pain<br \/>\nwithin will drive me insane.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More poetry via instagram <span class=\"atwho-query\">@anjaanography<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My heartbeat is not a metronome. It beats erratically threatening to turn my ribcage into dust. My sternum fends itself with a sorry sword hanging off of the end of it, for the xiphoid process can only pierce what is within and I am only&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101086","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\/3288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101099,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101086\/revisions\/101099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}