{"id":108561,"date":"2022-06-25T11:58:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=108561"},"modified":"2022-06-25T17:45:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:45:11","slug":"hour-two-the-brightest-evening-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-two-the-brightest-evening-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"HOUR TWO ~ The Brightest Evening Of The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>THE BRIGHTEST EVENING OF THE YEAR<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cBetween the woods and frozen lake\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The darkest evening of the year.\u201d ~ Robert Frost<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>known only by the names we call ourselves<\/p>\n<p>there was a moment across these months<\/p>\n<p>stretching days across the loom into weeks<\/p>\n<p>slowly, more known, we come into focus<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>our eyes adjust to any light they find<\/p>\n<p>from solstice to solstice woven across the dimness<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>we, too, stopped to see the frozen lake<\/p>\n<p>there was blinding light as the snow swirled up<\/p>\n<p>cyclones across the ice, whipped up in wind<\/p>\n<p>swept across like my joy when I see your face<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>may we always pause in breathless wonder of beauty<\/p>\n<p>may we keep our promises across so many dark nights<\/p>\n<p>to be known to ourselves, finally, beyond any naming,<\/p>\n<p>or any darkness<\/p>\n<p>or any light<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE BRIGHTEST EVENING OF THE YEAR &nbsp; \u201cBetween the woods and frozen lake\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The darkest evening of the year.\u201d ~ Robert Frost &nbsp; known only by the names we call ourselves there was a moment across these months stretching days across the loom into weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108561","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\/1491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113980,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108561\/revisions\/113980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}