{"id":128962,"date":"2023-09-02T11:26:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128962"},"modified":"2023-09-02T11:26:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:26:59","slug":"onion-skins-prompt-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/onion-skins-prompt-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Onion skins prompt three"},"content":{"rendered":"

My falling tears are onion skins<\/p>\n

Flaking in the day<\/p>\n

I cry<\/p>\n

The smell carries old socks worn with purpose<\/p>\n

As Uncle Tom chuckles at my state<\/p>\n

I hide my face and begin the fade<\/div>\n
All the while immersed in this strange place<\/div>\n
They call it Florida<\/div>\n
I call it death and disgrace<\/div>\n
I hear the chatter the next room over<\/div>\n
of how wrong I had been and how different I seem<\/div>\n
But I can\u2019t gather my eyes enough to look at the sun<\/div>\n
Where will I scurry away?<\/div>\n
They are all so invested in this display<\/div>\n
It\u2019s as if they tore my limbs straight from my heart and wonder aghast at my frown<\/div>\n
I scream and they continue<\/div>\n
Poking and prodding my feelings<\/div>\n
as a cadaver on the morgue gurney<\/div>\n
I cry flaking in the day<\/div>\n
My tears are onion skins crepe, soft and plentiful<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
C. Churchill<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My falling tears are onion skins Flaking in the day I cry The smell carries old socks worn with purpose As Uncle Tom chuckles at my state I hide my face and begin the fade All the while immersed in this strange place They call…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128962","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\/1055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128994,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128962\/revisions\/128994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}