{"id":102347,"date":"2021-06-27T07:22:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T11:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=102347"},"modified":"2021-06-27T07:22:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T11:22:49","slug":"midnight-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/midnight-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Midnight Poetry<\/p>\n<p>Desire takes me to a galaxy of stars,<br \/>\nnewborns, not yet named,<br \/>\nand I can only hover in waiting.<\/p>\n<p>Desire guides me down a mountain<br \/>\nlandscaped with still-life moments<br \/>\nI\u2019ve nearly forgotten; my brow collages<br \/>\nwith a sweaty yearning I cannot control.<\/p>\n<p>Desire refuses to allow me to stop<br \/>\non my journey to fall into an abyss<br \/>\nof grief, a bier of stones rises from the pit<br \/>\nof my stomach to lodge in my drybed throat,<br \/>\nchoking me.<\/p>\n<p>Desire drives me to you, pulls over<br \/>\nat the curb and throws me to the street.<br \/>\nI crawl to your door, pound to let me in,<br \/>\nlet me be all that you need, one more chance,<br \/>\nbut your chilling indifference sends me back<br \/>\nto the stars, calling me to name them after you.<\/p>\n<p>~ J R Turek<br \/>\nJune 27, 2021 Hour 23<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midnight Poetry Desire takes me to a galaxy of stars, newborns, not yet named, and I can only hover in waiting. Desire guides me down a mountain landscaped with still-life moments I\u2019ve nearly forgotten; my brow collages with a sweaty yearning I cannot control. Desire&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102347","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\/1325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102350,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102347\/revisions\/102350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}