{"id":127447,"date":"2023-09-02T10:04:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127447"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:11:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:11:28","slug":"weather-witch-moon-on-a-line-from-kristin-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/weather-witch-moon-on-a-line-from-kristin-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour #2: Weather-Witch Moon: On a line from Kristin Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The weather-witch speaks of secrets foretold,<\/em><\/p>\n<p>in shadows between washes of moonlight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sweetgums reach limbs, looming like gnarly arms<\/p>\n<p>over children who cry in fear, hide from long-fingered<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>twigs reaching to grab the backs of their necks<\/p>\n<p>as they walk the night. I pray to the weather-witch<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>for protection, her sassy shimmer whitening my skin.<\/p>\n<p>My plea\u2014free me of fear, from the poisonous spell<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>that controls my days. Even with votaries promising<\/p>\n<p>a new awakening, a positive outcome, good events<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>on the horizon, the moon penetrates my dreams,<\/p>\n<p>stripping my spirit of pretense in the light of her fullness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Such nonsense, her power of witchery, yet how do<\/p>\n<p>I explain my dream coming true just as I crawl from bed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather-witch speaks of secrets foretold, in shadows between washes of moonlight. &nbsp; Sweetgums reach limbs, looming like gnarly arms over children who cry in fear, hide from long-fingered &nbsp; twigs reaching to grab the backs of their necks as they walk the night. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3260],"class_list":["post-127447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-full-moon-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127447","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\/1134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127447"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136606,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127447\/revisions\/136606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}