{"id":131161,"date":"2023-09-02T13:49:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131161"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:52:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:52:25","slug":"hour-five-iron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-five-iron\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Five: Iron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I walked the line<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">along the tracks.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two iron straights<br \/>\n<\/span>connected by wooden slats.<br \/>\nThe end would bring the answer<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">if I kept on the straight and narrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No turning back.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No veering off.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just straight and narrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the end, though, it was my hands,<br \/>\n<\/span>not my feet,<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">that found the jewel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the end the answer<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">dug deep into the soil,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">scratch and scraped,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">fingernails chipped,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">bones crooked from age.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dug deep into the soil<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to hold dear,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">no matter the weight<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">or pain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No judgements.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just digging.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then holding.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Not walking.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Holding.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Deep and near.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Straight into the<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">iron of my heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-131207 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5288-scaled-e1693676902152-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5288-scaled-e1693676902152-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5288-scaled-e1693676902152-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5288-scaled-e1693676902152-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5288-scaled-e1693676902152-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5288-scaled-e1693676902152.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-131213 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5289-scaled-e1693676927137-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5289-scaled-e1693676927137-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5289-scaled-e1693676927137-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5289-scaled-e1693676927137-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5289-scaled-e1693676927137-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5289-scaled-e1693676927137.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I walked the line along the tracks. Two iron straights connected by wooden slats. The end would bring the answer if I kept on the straight and narrow. No turning back. No veering off. Just straight and narrow. In the end, though, it was my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131161","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\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131242,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131161\/revisions\/131242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}