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Attack of An Apple<\/strong><\/p>\n ‘Twas<\/p>\n two days<\/p>\n left ’til Christmas<\/p>\n when he dropped<\/p>\n me at<\/p>\n the<\/p>\n door,<\/p>\n leaving me<\/p>\n lost and lonesome,<\/p>\n a stranger in<\/p>\n an even<\/p>\n stranger<\/p>\n land.<\/p>\n People packed<\/p>\n like standing sardines,<\/p>\n trapped tightly in<\/p>\n a tin.<\/p>\n Panic<\/p>\n overcame<\/p>\n me, incapacitating.<\/p>\n Sweating, shaking, sobbing,<\/p>\n anxiety attacking inside<\/p>\n Apple Store.<\/p>\n As<\/p>\n we<\/p>\n left, he<\/p>\n asked would I<\/p>\n ever return on<\/p>\n my own?<\/p>\n “NEVERMORE!”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ****A hay(na)ku is a three line poem where the first line consists of one word, the second line has two, and the third line is composed of three words. A reverse hay(na)ku is three lines composed in the opposite fashion, of three words, then two, and one word for the final line. In the 2019 Poetry Marathon, I created the “Mirror hay(na)ku” by combining a hay(na)ku with a reverse hay(na)ku. In 2020, I took things a step further by compiling five mirror hay(na)ku stanzas and calling it a Hall of Mirrors Hay(na)ku.****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Attack of An Apple ‘Twas two days left ’til Christmas when he dropped me at the door, leaving me lost and lonesome, a stranger in an even stranger land. People packed like standing sardines, trapped tightly in a tin. Panic overcame me, incapacitating. Sweating,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122531","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\/1212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122725,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122531\/revisions\/122725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}