{"id":12124,"date":"2015-06-13T23:34:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T03:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=12124"},"modified":"2015-06-13T23:34:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T03:34:48","slug":"poem-21-inflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/poem-21-inflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem #21: Inflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inflection<\/p>\n<p>The void is compact within a balloon; it could pop and be out of my hands any time.<br \/>\nThe trees hold up the sky so it does not fall.<br \/>\nTake a brick and put it in the wall.<br \/>\nIs reality here or did you put it in the closet again?<br \/>\nSomething knocked on the door: I am not home.<br \/>\nShe is still standing and I am rolling on the stormy sea.<br \/>\nSomebody will you help me!<br \/>\nCeaselessly the waves cascade.<br \/>\nShe is still standing and I am wandering in the woods.<br \/>\nSomebody will you find me!<br \/>\nGlimmering her eyes, the colour of these summer leaves.<br \/>\nShe is still standing and I haven\u2019t a clue of where my shoes went.<br \/>\nWither the wind blows\u2014hither I hear her footsteps play soft upon the ground.<br \/>\nRefine the diamond all you want\u2014it will never shimmer as radiantly as she.<br \/>\nWhy buy a spirit at the store when you already have one?<br \/>\nThey do not even sell any.<br \/>\nTake a picture.<br \/>\nRemember how to remember.<br \/>\nA time better than this one.<br \/>\nForget forgetful things; best leave them forgotten for now.<br \/>\nThe void becomes stamps null.<br \/>\nA happy balloon for her.<br \/>\nSomeone knocked on the door: she is home and so am I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inflection The void is compact within a balloon; it could pop and be out of my hands any time. The trees hold up the sky so it does not fall. Take a brick and put it in the wall. Is reality here or did you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12124","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\/281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12133,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12124\/revisions\/12133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}