{"id":111763,"date":"2022-06-25T15:25:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=111763"},"modified":"2022-06-25T15:25:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:25:15","slug":"post-7-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/post-7-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"post #7: apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-112033\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/couple-on-bench-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/couple-on-bench-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/couple-on-bench-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/couple-on-bench-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/couple-on-bench-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/couple-on-bench-1366x2048.jpeg 1366w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/couple-on-bench.jpeg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">We will not see another dawn together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nor will we watch the day deepen to dark.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">And all those hours of wondering whether<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">we should have stayed, or left, or disembarked<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">are now behind us, as you too recede.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The chair you sat in moves within the wind<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">(I watched two chipmunks play tag at its feet)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">and tried to conjure you rocking again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">It didn\u2019t work: your place remains empty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">As does each room, the entire house, the bed ~<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don\u2019t allow the memories to tempt me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">What am I saying?? I know that you are dead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I know it all too well, but not, my heart,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">just how to deal with all of this\u2026apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We will not see another dawn together. Nor will we watch the day deepen to dark. And all those hours of wondering whether we should have stayed, or left, or disembarked are now behind us, as you too recede. The chair you sat in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4545,225],"class_list":["post-111763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-formpoetry","tag-sonnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111763","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112057,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111763\/revisions\/112057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}