{"id":11413,"date":"2015-06-13T22:25:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T02:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=11413"},"modified":"2015-06-13T22:25:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T02:25:04","slug":"pardon-my-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/pardon-my-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardon My Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does one grieve for a living soul<\/p>\n<p>Whose eyes are open<\/p>\n<p>Soul closed<\/p>\n<p>Ever shrinking from the light of knowing<\/p>\n<p>In a cataract blurred reality of who of what of why<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Capped Ice pursuing life pushing down life<\/p>\n<p>Polar\u00a0darkness pilfering all pulmonary exhalations<\/p>\n<p>Can life survive down there?<\/p>\n<p>In the cold, suffocating abyss\u00a0that presses<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217; Cryogenic geriatric! Are you there?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Held suspended ever shriveling ever shivering never seeing<\/p>\n<p>Through the swamp of failing fluids<\/p>\n<p>Choking down memories like cough\u00a0serum<\/p>\n<p>Seeping bitter dregs strained past their taste<\/p>\n<p>How can life survive being thusly alive?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Can I grieve at this while you remain un-here unheard?<\/p>\n<p>I do not mean to demean such suffering.<\/p>\n<p>This is my grief in stasis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>by Karen Sullivan<\/p>\n<p>Form: Elegy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does one grieve for a living soul Whose eyes are open Soul closed Ever shrinking from the light of knowing In a cataract blurred reality of who of what of why &nbsp; Capped Ice pursuing life pushing down life Polar\u00a0darkness pilfering all pulmonary exhalations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[858],"class_list":["post-11413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-poetrymarathon2015-karensullivan-elegy-verseofbarbara-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413","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\/681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11821,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413\/revisions\/11821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}