{"id":101684,"date":"2021-06-27T06:01:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T10:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101684"},"modified":"2021-07-11T10:05:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T14:05:56","slug":"hour-20-walking-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-20-walking-the-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 20: Walking the Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cI have been one acquainted with the night.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230; I have outwalked the furthest city light\u201d (Robert Frost).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No remote nature road for me<\/p>\n<p>Where small rustles in the grass chill my gut,<\/p>\n<p>Where moon and stars play hide and seek<\/p>\n<p>Behind brooding verdant branches;<\/p>\n<p>Where cackling cicadas watch over me,<\/p>\n<p>Warning me they are waiting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Spare me the desolation<\/p>\n<p>Where something howls at the sky;<\/p>\n<p>Where my lonely steps<\/p>\n<p>Crush the paths I walk.<\/p>\n<p>Where friends are empty echoes<\/p>\n<p>Of memory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Give me city lights in my night,<\/p>\n<p>Solitude in a crowd,<\/p>\n<p>Feeding all my senses:<\/p>\n<p>Reverberating voices tripping over each other,<\/p>\n<p>Smoky roastings tempting my tongue,<\/p>\n<p>Blasts of heat and rot beneath,<\/p>\n<p>Colors rioting beyond the rainbow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Give me the city<\/p>\n<p>Where wishing stars<\/p>\n<p>And moonlight larger than the sun,<\/p>\n<p>Play along the asphalt;<\/p>\n<p>Where other walkers and I make music<\/p>\n<p>Like jazz, dancing our variations,<\/p>\n<p>Watching each other prance<\/p>\n<p>In the glowing darkness;<\/p>\n<p>Where I hear laughs of mirth,<\/p>\n<p>Sobs of grief, hums of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI have been one acquainted with the night. &#8230; I have outwalked the furthest city light\u201d (Robert Frost). &nbsp; No remote nature road for me Where small rustles in the grass chill my gut, Where moon and stars play hide and seek Behind brooding verdant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4101],"class_list":["post-101684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2021poetrymarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101684","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\/853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104343,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101684\/revisions\/104343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}