{"id":110510,"date":"2022-06-25T13:38:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=110510"},"modified":"2022-06-25T13:38:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:38:35","slug":"mars-in-leo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/mars-in-leo\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars in Leo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mars in Leo<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

You come on<\/p>\n

like a forest fire,<\/p>\n

but I am half-asleep.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ten years younger,<\/p>\n

you still stoke the furnace<\/p>\n

every day.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I am content to sleep in<\/p>\n

and shuffle to the kitchen<\/p>\n

for coffee.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

What will<\/p>\n

become of us?<\/p>\n

We met in flames,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

but will die<\/p>\n

in earth, sooner<\/p>\n

than either of us<\/p>\n

imagined.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I could have a<\/p>\n

seventy-year-old beau<\/p>\n

with real estate,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

instead of a slacker musician<\/p>\n

who works<\/p>\n

at Ace Hardware,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

but oh,<\/p>\n

the warmth.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

We\u2019ll go cold too soon.<\/p>\n

Go ahead<\/p>\n

and poke the embers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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