{"id":102216,"date":"2021-06-27T07:10:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T11:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=102216"},"modified":"2021-06-27T07:10:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T11:10:28","slug":"on-the-black-hill-hour-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/on-the-black-hill-hour-23\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Black Hill (Hour 23)"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the black hill where the prarie grasses \r\nand small trees converge into one impenetrable shadow,\u00a0<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">from which all that is of the earth unfolds forth, <\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">down through the valleys and secret hollows,\u00a0<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">that breathing titan of darkness, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">whose outline is just barely seen \r\n\r\nformed against the fallen sky, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">where purple teeth shine out \r\nfrom the deep caverns above.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There, upon this midnight place of stilled dreaming, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">where starlight's radiance imprisons my slipping retreat, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">that waning fire of my paternal seat.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The majestic virility of universalkingdoms<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">held breathless against the timeless sea<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She sleeps in an aging dawn of becoming. \r\n\r\nOutlasting the swift brightness of Jupiters might.<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In his most silent chamber, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in the most private corridor of his mind, <\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">he feels the foundation weaken, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the breaker wall fallen cold, crumbling.<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As she swells, expands, engulfs the mountain \r\n\r\nno longer proud. <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">helpless to a deeper cycle \r\nburied in the rising waves.<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the black hill where the prarie grasses and small trees converge into one impenetrable shadow,\u00a0 from which all that is of the earth unfolds forth, down through the valleys and secret hollows,\u00a0 that breathing titan of darkness, whose outline is just barely seen formed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102216","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\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102273,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102216\/revisions\/102273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}