{"id":131129,"date":"2023-09-02T13:44:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131129"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:44:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:44:35","slug":"this-is-how-she-found-me-after-diana-khoi-nguyen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/this-is-how-she-found-me-after-diana-khoi-nguyen\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how she found me (after Diana Khoi Nguyen)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt #1<br \/>\nAfter Diana Khoi Nguyen<\/p>\n<p>This is how she found me<br \/>\nthe past draped around me like a cloak.<\/p>\n<p>A box full of pictures and memories,<br \/>\na kiss on the cheek at Whatcom Falls<br \/>\nfrom when I used to visit years ago<br \/>\na different world from the barren desert.<\/p>\n<p>A kiss on the forehead<br \/>\nfrom when she was sleeping<br \/>\nafter her return from her Greek adventures<\/p>\n<p>Pens and unused flowery notebooks<br \/>\nbooks and memoirs she read<\/p>\n<p>A childhood picture (that I would send back<br \/>\nif I knew where she lived)<br \/>\npictures of Bruce<br \/>\nher feisty Chihuahua companion<br \/>\npictures of us<\/p>\n<p>This is how she found me<br \/>\nthe past draped around me like a cloak<br \/>\nand I feel nothing;<br \/>\nno sorrow, no grief, no love, no longing;<br \/>\nThis is how she found me<br \/>\nthe past draped around me like a cloak<br \/>\nthat I shrug off<br \/>\nbecause I don\u2019t want to be found<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt #1 After Diana Khoi Nguyen This is how she found me the past draped around me like a cloak. A box full of pictures and memories, a kiss on the cheek at Whatcom Falls from when I used to visit years ago a different&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131129","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\/1578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131167,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131129\/revisions\/131167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}