{"id":11610,"date":"2015-06-13T21:50:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T01:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=11610"},"modified":"2015-06-13T21:50:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T01:50:16","slug":"final-poem-poem-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/final-poem-poem-12\/","title":{"rendered":"final poem!! (poem #12) ~"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I come from suitcases<br \/>\nfrom generations (three) of packing tape<br \/>\nlately book boxes from UTotem<br \/>\nfilled with the detritus of a dissertation<br \/>\nEach move a chance to clean house<br \/>\nbegin a new life unencumbered<br \/>\na nautilus w\/out her chambered shell<br \/>\nI am throwing away my childhood<br \/>\nthe early years of love &amp; marriage<br \/>\nstitched into linens from Hong Kong<br \/>\nteapots from Korea<br \/>\nand bronzeware from another life<br \/>\nFlipping to another page within a book<br \/>\nI haven\u2019t written yet<br \/>\nthe story of a woman and a man<br \/>\nand someone else\u2019s baby<br \/>\nI tell myself:<br \/>\nIt\u2019s only one more time<br \/>\nOne more house to make a home<br \/>\nOne more map to learn<br \/>\nAnd one more utter dislocation<br \/>\nYou\u2019d think I would adapt<br \/>\nbut something there is that doesn\u2019t love<br \/>\nthis kind of change<br \/>\nthe suitcases the boxes the move<br \/>\nthe goodbyes and the distances<br \/>\nthat feel a bit like deaths<br \/>\nand send me in to mourning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I come from suitcases from generations (three) of packing tape lately book boxes from UTotem filled with the detritus of a dissertation Each move a chance to clean house begin a new life unencumbered a nautilus w\/out her chambered shell I am throwing away my&#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":[],"class_list":["post-11610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11610","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=11610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11666,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11610\/revisions\/11666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}