{"id":120188,"date":"2022-06-26T04:07:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T08:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=120188"},"modified":"2022-06-26T04:07:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T08:07:29","slug":"hour-19-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-19-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Response poem to Irisa Kwok\u2019s <em>Hong Kong Triptych<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When spring never came, my friend left forever.<br \/>\nShe said, fuck the neon metropolis and instead moved<br \/>\nto countries of fog instead of mist, brick<br \/>\ninstead of cement.<br \/>\nShe bowed not once, not twice but thrice.<br \/>\nSwam laps around the public pool.<br \/>\nAm I not people, is there no place for me<br \/>\nin this bauhinia, this town of orchids?<br \/>\nI want to come Home Kong,<br \/>\nAm I expat, foreigner forever? Or am I<br \/>\na tree re-rooting itself, finding its ancestors<br \/>\nup the family trunk.<br \/>\nI take the ferry more than once a month,<br \/>\nI run across the dragonback hills<br \/>\nand fly up the 120 floors.<br \/>\nThe city has changed beyond our sight<br \/>\nbut I will uncover the hidden pearl,<br \/>\nchocolate strawberry candy,<br \/>\nthat lies at the mouth of the river delta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Response poem to Irisa Kwok\u2019s Hong Kong Triptych When spring never came, my friend left forever. She said, fuck the neon metropolis and instead moved to countries of fog instead of mist, brick instead of cement. She bowed not once, not twice but thrice. Swam&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5523,2665,5556],"class_list":["post-120188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2022hour19","tag-hour19","tag-hournineteen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120188","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\/2465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120194,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120188\/revisions\/120194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}