{"id":106627,"date":"2022-06-25T10:09:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=106627"},"modified":"2022-06-25T10:09:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:09:02","slug":"ill-clean-it-up-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/ill-clean-it-up-after\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Clean It Up After"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do I\u00a0describe water<\/p>\n<p>the essential\u00a0element of life<\/p>\n<p>Without it<\/p>\n<p>we grow faint and suffer<\/p>\n<p>I love it in a glass or\u00a0a bubbly bath<\/p>\n<p>slipping under or\u00a0running through<\/p>\n<p>my hair on purpose<\/p>\n<p>thirsty skin and shafts\u00a0waiting for<\/p>\n<p>the lather<\/p>\n<p>in my hand<\/p>\n<p>I love it<\/p>\n<p>gently splashing<\/p>\n<p>over my toes\u00a0sinking in the sand<\/p>\n<p>I love it<\/p>\n<p>on a window<\/p>\n<p>in a storm\u00a0reflecting<\/p>\n<p>flashes of<\/p>\n<p>light across the sky<\/p>\n<p>I love it\u00a0slow and gentle<\/p>\n<p>running in rivelets<\/p>\n<p>down the\u00a0windowpane<\/p>\n<p>or in a hard\u00a0downpour leaving<\/p>\n<p>muddy stain<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s messy<\/p>\n<p>but\u00a0we will clean it<\/p>\n<p>after the rain<\/p>\n<p>Water<\/p>\n<p>I loved how\u00a0it trickled down<\/p>\n<p>my legs that day<\/p>\n<p>announcing\u00a0joy was on its way<\/p>\n<p>We cleaned it up\u00a0after the pain<\/p>\n<p>there it was<\/p>\n<p>that essential<\/p>\n<p>to life element again<\/p>\n<p>words<\/p>\n<p>can be messy<\/p>\n<p>like rain<\/p>\n<p>when inspiration comes<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll clean them up later after the pain<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I\u00a0describe water the essential\u00a0element of life Without it we grow faint and suffer I love it in a glass or\u00a0a bubbly bath slipping under or\u00a0running through my hair on purpose thirsty skin and shafts\u00a0waiting for the lather in my hand I love it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":880,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106627","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\/880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107508,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106627\/revisions\/107508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}