{"id":128323,"date":"2023-09-02T10:44:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128323"},"modified":"2023-09-07T01:55:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T05:55:58","slug":"hour-2-neurology-and-the-trembling-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-2-neurology-and-the-trembling-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 2: Neurology and the Trembling Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/maria-teneva-bJ-TxX30_98-unsplash-1365x2048-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-128117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/maria-teneva-bJ-TxX30_98-unsplash-1365x2048-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/maria-teneva-bJ-TxX30_98-unsplash-1365x2048-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/maria-teneva-bJ-TxX30_98-unsplash-1365x2048-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/maria-teneva-bJ-TxX30_98-unsplash-1365x2048-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/maria-teneva-bJ-TxX30_98-unsplash-1365x2048-1.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Above: prompt image<\/p>\n<p>As I left I told an exhibition steward *how* I saw it<br \/>\nThe paper<br \/>\nThe threads<br \/>\nThe impossibility of it<br \/>\n&#8211; flying &#8211; floating &#8211;<br \/>\nHeld motionless<br \/>\nYet ceaselessly moving<br \/>\nin a way that, to me<br \/>\nnever ceased to loop, to move, to shift<br \/>\nboats bobbing in white water that wasn\u2019t<br \/>\nAs I struggled away sea-sick and swaying<br \/>\nI thought the artist might want to know<br \/>\nKnow I could *see*<br \/>\nAll artists<br \/>\n?I think?<br \/>\nHope to convey a *way* of seeing the world<br \/>\nTo share their inner world<br \/>\nSo I sat there<br \/>\n &#8211; impossibly &#8211;<br \/>\n &#8211; improbably &#8211;<br \/>\nwatching \u2018paper birds\u2019 float in an endless loop above a desk<br \/>\n\u2026circling in, and round, and over\u2026<br \/>\nunexpected, certainly<br \/>\nYet a welcome thread<br \/>\n-of colour<br \/>\n-of joy<br \/>\nwinding onward<br \/>\nthrough my tapestry of becoming <\/p>\n<p>Below:<br \/>\nGallery and exhibition referenced in the poem<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3989-185x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-145135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3989-185x300.jpeg 185w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3989-633x1024.jpeg 633w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3989-768x1243.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3989-949x1536.jpeg 949w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3989.jpeg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above: prompt image As I left I told an exhibition steward *how* I saw it The paper The threads The impossibility of it &#8211; flying &#8211; floating &#8211; Held motionless Yet ceaselessly moving in a way that, to me never ceased to loop, to move,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136,441],"tags":[5790,5830,5829],"class_list":["post-128323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2023poetryhalfmarathon","tag-neurology","tag-thesoultrembles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128323","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\/4375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128323"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145137,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128323\/revisions\/145137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}