{"id":119079,"date":"2022-06-26T01:46:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T05:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=119079"},"modified":"2022-06-26T01:46:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T05:46:35","slug":"darkness-all-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/darkness-all-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Darkness All Around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darkness All Around<\/p>\n<p>Darkness all around.<br \/>\nAll around me is blackness,<br \/>\nrich compacted soil.<br \/>\nKindness in the burrow,<br \/>\nnowhere in the darkness.<br \/>\nEven leave room for another<br \/>\nso tomorrow we may die,<br \/>\nso tomorrow we shall die.<\/p>\n<p>All around us blackness and grayness.<br \/>\nLook for the swarm at first light<br \/>\nlook to the east to the mulch pile in the corner.<\/p>\n<p>All is dark and quiet and all is calm<br \/>\nRound up the troops and let&#8217;s hum a song.<br \/>\nOur day is upon us, and<br \/>\nunto the course we will rush.<br \/>\nNext to the strawberry patch,<br \/>\ndown in the dirt, there it will end.<\/p>\n<p>Hour seventeen, 1am<br \/>\nDarkness All Around<br \/>\n(form Acrostic\/ found verse)<br \/>\nCharlie the Mayfly.<\/p>\n<p>v.j.calone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darkness All Around Darkness all around. All around me is blackness, rich compacted soil. Kindness in the burrow, nowhere in the darkness. Even leave room for another so tomorrow we may die, so tomorrow we shall die. All around us blackness and grayness. Look for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4646,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119079","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\/4646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119083,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119079\/revisions\/119083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}