{"id":119449,"date":"2022-06-26T02:31:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T06:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=119449"},"modified":"2022-06-26T02:31:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T06:31:46","slug":"hour-eighteen-fragments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-eighteen-fragments\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Eighteen &#8211; Fragments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fragments <\/p>\n<p>A window shatters<br \/>\nTiny squares of glass cascade down<br \/>\nMixing with the gravel in my driveway<br \/>\nBright and unnatural as diamonds<\/p>\n<p>For days I sift through the gravel<br \/>\nMy gloved hand picking out cuboids<br \/>\nAnd prisms and oblongs and shards<br \/>\nSeparating shiny window glass from the dusty gravel<\/p>\n<p>I picture myself as Cinderella<br \/>\nPicking the lentils from the ashes<br \/>\nWhat a tedious task that was<\/p>\n<p>But it is not so bad<br \/>\nHere on my front step<br \/>\nDustpan full of gravel<br \/>\nBucket filling with glass<\/p>\n<p>Like Cinderella<br \/>\nI have the birds to sing to me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fragments A window shatters Tiny squares of glass cascade down Mixing with the gravel in my driveway Bright and unnatural as diamonds For days I sift through the gravel My gloved hand picking out cuboids And prisms and oblongs and shards Separating shiny window glass&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119449","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\/1047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119460,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119449\/revisions\/119460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}