{"id":121646,"date":"2022-06-26T07:12:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=121646"},"modified":"2022-06-26T07:17:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:17:43","slug":"under-the-clouds-with-tesla-poem-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/under-the-clouds-with-tesla-poem-11\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Under the clouds with Tesla&#8221; POEM 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small repeating patterns<br \/>\nspotted revealing private messages.<br \/>\nThe croak of bull frogs behind me<br \/>\ncalling out, slowly. The sound is a visual thing.<br \/>\nFemale letting out a tease<br \/>\nas suiters hurriedly raise their voice in desperate sequence<br \/>\nwaiting for her to echo back the number of times they did<\/p>\n<p>Three, six, nine<br \/>\nrepeating. reminders of our continuing survival<br \/>\nNine doubled, always equaling back to it&#8217;s self<br \/>\nOne set of rolling tires on dew damp pavement.<br \/>\nEight blinks of a wayward star.<br \/>\nTwo flutters of my eye lashes as the bull croaks out seven times.<br \/>\nThree slaps of a branch.<br \/>\nSix steps to my bed.<br \/>\nFive bodies snoring in a space meant for four.<\/p>\n<p>Can you close your eyes and hear the sequence in your space?<br \/>\nThe numbers disguised in the rustle of the wind.<br \/>\nHushed laughter of parents making an inside joke<br \/>\nor the staccato rhythm of my toddler wheezing,<br \/>\nmy ear catching all of her whispers.<\/p>\n<p>Be carful what you listen for&#8230;<br \/>\nits hard to give back secrets you&#8217;ve unlocked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small repeating patterns spotted revealing private messages. The croak of bull frogs behind me calling out, slowly. The sound is a visual thing. Female letting out a tease as suiters hurriedly raise their voice in desperate sequence waiting for her to echo back the number&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4456,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121646","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\/4456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121863,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121646\/revisions\/121863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}