{"id":109300,"date":"2022-06-25T12:13:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=109300"},"modified":"2022-06-25T12:13:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:13:41","slug":"reaching-into-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/reaching-into-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaching into June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A monochrome view lies before me<br \/>\nof the month I most dread<\/p>\n<p>Memories attack around every corner, and<br \/>\nI am forced to relive those<br \/>\nmost treacherous pains <\/p>\n<p>every year.<br \/>\nEvery June.<\/p>\n<p>As I force my way forward, I<br \/>\ntry<br \/>\nto allow room for light.<\/p>\n<p>I try to remind myself that there<br \/>\nis joy to be found, even<br \/>\nalongside the sorrow.<\/p>\n<p>I reach out a hand<br \/>\nhoping to grab hold of some<br \/>\ninkling of hope,<\/p>\n<p>to grip one moment<br \/>\nwho might combat the pain<br \/>\nwhich I brace myself against.<\/p>\n<p>Slowly,<\/p>\n<p>infinitely slowly<\/p>\n<p>I am starting to see light<\/p>\n<p>But<br \/>\nin June<br \/>\nthe black only hovers at a charcoal grey.<\/p>\n<p>*In memory of David Tipton &#8212; June 13,2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A monochrome view lies before me of the month I most dread Memories attack around every corner, and I am forced to relive those most treacherous pains every year. Every June. As I force my way forward, I try to allow room for light. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109300","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\/1218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109339,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109300\/revisions\/109339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}