{"id":120815,"date":"2022-06-26T05:22:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T09:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=120815"},"modified":"2022-06-26T05:22:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T09:22:25","slug":"grace-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/grace-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wings are bare swan bones<br \/>\ngrotesquely sprouting from<br \/>\nbetween my shoulder blades. <\/p>\n<p>I cannot fly. <\/p>\n<p>They are bloody with strips of<br \/>\nburst flesh clinging<br \/>\nto cartilage, splintered<br \/>\nat the tips from spearing<br \/>\nloose ends. <\/p>\n<p>Stay with it.<br \/>\nKeep going. <\/p>\n<p>No down or contour or flight<br \/>\nfeathers. Nowhere to hide. <\/p>\n<p>I clench to spread them<br \/>\nfan them out over my head<br \/>\nnow dripping and sticky<br \/>\nwith pieces of my back<br \/>\nfalling into my curls. <\/p>\n<p>Nowhere to hide. <\/p>\n<p>Hideous and joyful and terror<br \/>\nembracing what I cannot. <\/p>\n<p>Turn me over slowly in your mind.<br \/>\nI cannot cartwheel for you. <\/p>\n<p>My red wing bones scar my shoulders.<br \/>\nI cannot flap. I am not broken. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wings are bare swan bones grotesquely sprouting from between my shoulder blades. I cannot fly. They are bloody with strips of burst flesh clinging to cartilage, splintered at the tips from spearing loose ends. Stay with it. Keep going. No down or contour or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120815","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\/1119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120858,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120815\/revisions\/120858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}