{"id":131997,"date":"2023-09-02T14:41:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131997"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:55:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:55:27","slug":"hour-6-report-from-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-6-report-from-the-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 6 &#8211; Report From The Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4210-1-186x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-132202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4210-1-186x300.jpeg 186w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4210-1-635x1024.jpeg 635w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4210-1-768x1239.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4210-1-952x1536.jpeg 952w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4210-1.jpeg 1051w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><br \/>\nReport From The Edge<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t want to come<br \/>\nI\u2019m not the adventurer type<br \/>\nand I\u2019ve heard that the winds at the Edge are fierce<br \/>\n            sometimes 50 or 60 miles an hour!<br \/>\n            People have been swept over<br \/>\n            never to be heard from again<br \/>\nBut, \u201cIt\u2019s the chance of a lifetime!\u201d<br \/>\n             So we went<\/p>\n<p>Just the journey was as rigorous as you might suppose<br \/>\n            Each step one level more removed from society<br \/>\n                   more rural, more cumbersome<br \/>\n                      Jet plane to train to barge to mule team<br \/>\nAnd I, as you may have suspected, didn\u2019t complain<br \/>\n                  Once I agree to something my doggedness in incomparable<br \/>\nBut inside<br \/>\n             my unease grew with every mile<\/p>\n<p>Then, last evening, we were there<br \/>\nAfter trudging through the heather<br \/>\n            -which I really quite liked &#8211;<br \/>\nThe rim was ahead of us<br \/>\n               a rocky, jagged rim of stone and then<br \/>\n                                Nothing<\/p>\n<p>I felt myself rooted to the ground<br \/>\n              safe in that one spot<br \/>\n                        knowing one step more was impossible<br \/>\nI heard the cascade of water tumbling over<br \/>\n               like it was in some distant space in my head<br \/>\nSaw the rising mist<br \/>\n               the kestrels dipping and diving beyond the drop off<br \/>\nTasted panic in my mouth <\/p>\n<p>I saw Paul and the boys kneeling on that delicate rim<br \/>\n               talking, gesturing, laughing<br \/>\nI turned<br \/>\n       walking back to a spot where I could no longer hear<br \/>\n              no longer see the Edge<br \/>\nPicking a bouquet of yellow grassflowers as I waited<\/p>\n<p>So goes my report from The Edge<br \/>\nI fear I shall have disappointed you as well<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report From The Edge I didn\u2019t want to come I\u2019m not the adventurer type and I\u2019ve heard that the winds at the Edge are fierce sometimes 50 or 60 miles an hour! People have been swept over never to be heard from again But, \u201cIt\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131997","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\/1047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131997"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132204,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131997\/revisions\/132204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}