{"id":126951,"date":"2023-09-02T09:32:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=126951"},"modified":"2023-09-02T15:01:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:01:15","slug":"an-anaphora-for-frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/an-anaphora-for-frank\/","title":{"rendered":"An Anaphora for Frank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe past draped about us like a cloak.\u201d Diana Khoi Nguyen<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to fall out of love with you.<\/p>\n<p>A chapter of my life<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to end.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s over<\/p>\n<p>you\u2019re gone<\/p>\n<p>and all I have is this empty page.<\/p>\n<p>My emotions spill across these lines<\/p>\n<p>like blood spewing.<\/p>\n<p>Ooze out my metaphors<\/p>\n<p>as my heart races.<\/p>\n<p>With a syringe of similes<\/p>\n<p>I can express my secret crush<\/p>\n<p>now public.<\/p>\n<p>Your body now disintegrates<\/p>\n<p>inside a box in the ground,<\/p>\n<p>but your spirit is everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>I wake and vision your face<\/p>\n<p>deep eyes and thick hair.<\/p>\n<p>Closing my eyes<\/p>\n<p>hear the sound of your voice<\/p>\n<p>raspy fresh as this morning\u2019s dew.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to fall out of love with you.<\/p>\n<p>This letting go chokes me,<\/p>\n<p>I resist tears.<\/p>\n<p>The hardest part of greatness<\/p>\n<p>is it\u2019s ending.<\/p>\n<p>The most difficult ending<\/p>\n<p>is said without a goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe past draped about us like a cloak.\u201d Diana Khoi Nguyen I don\u2019t want to fall out of love with you. A chapter of my life I don\u2019t want to end. It\u2019s over you\u2019re gone and all I have is this empty page. My emotions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126951","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\/4331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126951"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132295,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126951\/revisions\/132295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}