{"id":117949,"date":"2022-06-25T23:55:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T03:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=117949"},"modified":"2022-06-25T23:55:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T03:55:15","slug":"prompt-15-words-for-nothingness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/prompt-15-words-for-nothingness\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 15, Words for Nothingness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/filipp-romanovski-kgV_nZnKLAM-unsplash-scaled.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gasps of organic matter stand frail sentry<br \/>\nin your doorways.<br \/>\nWillow wisps, meadow grass, chuffed wheat stalks, prairie blades<br \/>\nin every color known to Pantone<br \/>\nare referenced by your hosts.<br \/>\nAll of your agents are thanked<br \/>\nand all of your rooms explored<br \/>\nno matter how similar.<br \/>\nThese studies in skeletal flora<br \/>\noccupy molten pots heavy enough to be moveable only by Hercules<br \/>\nat pivot doors that reach the sky,<br \/>\nand we are hushed as we enter.<br \/>\nRooms that will never be inhabited are set<br \/>\nas though for an episode of a late &#8217;90s dramatic series<br \/>\nin which every girl wore plum brown lipstick and<br \/>\nevery boy ran his hands through his hair<br \/>\nto indicate concern.<br \/>\nStill, there&#8217;s no lack of effect<br \/>\nin how unaffected every element in its undone-ness is.<br \/>\nFor all its impenetrability,<br \/>\n &#8211; with its home theater, its bathrooms that outnumber its bedrooms, and its panic room &#8211;<br \/>\nthe structure might as well be a dandelion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gasps of organic matter stand frail sentry in your doorways. Willow wisps, meadow grass, chuffed wheat stalks, prairie blades in every color known to Pantone are referenced by your hosts. All of your agents are thanked and all of your rooms explored no matter how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117949","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118127,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117949\/revisions\/118127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}