{"id":115045,"date":"2022-06-25T19:07:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=115045"},"modified":"2022-06-25T19:07:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:07:08","slug":"hour-10-out-of-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-10-out-of-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 10: Out of orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"

I called you in as salve<\/p>\n

for my loneliness<\/p>\n

and you appeared to be<\/p>\n

a gift from the powers\u2014<\/p>\n

the intercession<\/p>\n

of spirit pulling strings<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

You wanted me<\/p>\n

to dance with you<\/p>\n

brow to brow<\/p>\n

cheek to cheek<\/p>\n

hip to hip\u2014<\/p>\n

in perfectly balanced flow<\/p>\n

cycling within an insulated circuit,<\/p>\n

orbiting each other<\/p>\n

in some far off<\/p>\n

pocket dimension<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I did not recognize<\/p>\n

this part of the cosmos<\/p>\n

and began to pitch<\/p>\n

and pull toward my own orbit<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

You were stronger than you looked<\/p>\n

I called in debris and asteroids<\/p>\n

to knock me off<\/p>\n

the course you plotted<\/p>\n

you clung more tightly<\/p>\n

and whispered,<\/p>\n

\u201cNow that I\u2019ve found you,<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll never let you go.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

You called out first<\/p>\n

to the powers that be<\/p>\n

with forever on your lips.<\/p>\n

A sweet dream of easy love<\/p>\n

curdled in my stomach<\/p>\n

as I found myself to be<\/p>\n

at the tail end of an ouroboros<\/p>\n

perpetually caught<\/p>\n

in the teeth of your yearning<\/p>\n

for someone to hold onto,<\/p>\n

not unlike mine<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The pain of the pinch<\/p>\n

shook the glamour from my eyes<\/p>\n

and I awakened gratefully alone<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Go dance your eternal dances elsewhere,<\/p>\n

frolic away in faerie land<\/p>\n

make your wishes, but beware<\/p>\n

things don\u2019t always end up as they\u2019re planned<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I called you in as salve for my loneliness and you appeared to be a gift from the powers\u2014 the intercession of spirit pulling strings   You wanted me to dance with you brow to brow cheek to cheek hip to hip\u2014 in perfectly balanced…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4428,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115045","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\/4428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115065,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115045\/revisions\/115065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}