The rocks of longing in my heart build cairns<\/p>\n
that balance serendipitously on dunes built of sugar<\/p>\n
like the sweet and sticky buns of my youth<\/p>\n
sounds of sucking my fingertips<\/p>\n
before dipping them in the sands of the Ocean City beach<\/p>\n
where I lie in ageless wonder at Vanessa’s poise<\/p>\n
as she topples the stones<\/p>\n
only to rebuild them with sandhands<\/p>\n
outlasting the incoming tides with their sweet memories<\/p>\n
shifting sands of time my ass!<\/p>\n
the wandering waves of grief<\/p>\n
create as they reclaim<\/p>\n
Vanessa’s laugh coming now from my throat<\/p>\n
the little sis who I still am<\/p>\n
with the broken shells she gave me as a joke<\/p>\n
that I now treasure and always will<\/p>\n
the sickly sweet sounds of breaking seashells<\/p>\n
that burst me open<\/p>\n
freeing my tears<\/p>\n
Grazie mille sis<\/p>\n
the waves seem to scream<\/p>\n
lapping up against the cairn in my heart<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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The rocks of longing in my heart build cairns that balance serendipitously on dunes built of sugar like the sweet and sticky buns of my youth sounds of sucking my fingertips before dipping them in the sands of the Ocean City beach where I lie…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128777","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\/5269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129195,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128777\/revisions\/129195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}