Crepe myrtle trees with shocks of hot pink like my fingernails<\/p>\n
stand like the Queen\u2019s watch guards<\/p>\n
straight as can be,<\/p>\n
side by side with the old gate between them<\/p>\n
I put my foot between the bottom crook<\/p>\n
my hands sliding down, the bark<\/p>\n
isn\u2019t rough, it\u2019s as smooth as lotioned hands<\/p>\n
I caress the bark, feeling its strength<\/p>\n
and peer beyond the falling gate<\/p>\n
at nothing really special,<\/p>\n
just a place beyond the gate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Crepe myrtle trees with shocks of hot pink like my fingernails stand like the Queen\u2019s watch guards straight as can be, side by side with the old gate between them I put my foot between the bottom crook my hands sliding down, the bark isn\u2019t…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115164","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\/4308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115275,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115164\/revisions\/115275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}