The 20 little poetry projects<\/p>\n
this burning mess<\/em><\/p>\n breath is life<\/p>\n small red berries see in the dark<\/p>\n the white-hot light of these end-of-days summers<\/p>\n filling my mouth with ash.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n now all I smell is burning<\/p>\n when I worry about the future<\/p>\n and I long to run to the water to cool my raging skin<\/p>\n or taste the silence of all those screaming trees\u00a0Bezos and Musk can’t hear<\/p>\n in California<\/p>\n or the Cayman Islands<\/p>\n or Mars.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n our breath is killing us in our sleep<\/p>\n while we wait for someone else to fix the problems we’ve created.<\/p>\n Skodene!<\/p>\n these companies are all going green to save the planet<\/p>\n because, they say,<\/p>\n liquid natural gas does not come out of the ground…<\/p>\n the exquisite pile of lies<\/p>\n making me shove my thumbs in my eyes so deep<\/p>\n I am now deaf,<\/p>\n the silence slicing through me.<\/p>\n “she’s mojo,” they said,<\/p>\n “the one who brings water to fire in<\/p>\n rippling, glass buckets.<\/p>\n this madness will end in the squishing of mud between our toes!<\/p>\n maajtaadaa!<\/p>\n the trees are calling while they run around screaming<\/p>\n with their hands on fire.<\/p>\n (C) r. l. elke<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 20 little poetry projects this burning mess breath is life small red berries see in the dark the white-hot light of these end-of-days summers filling my mouth with ash. now all I smell is burning when I worry about the future and I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,1136,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129150","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129325,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129150\/revisions\/129325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}