A woman\u2019s tears spill<\/p>\n
to the ground, her<\/p>\n
tears spill from the wounds<\/p>\n
behind her green eyes.<\/p>\n
They make small balls<\/p>\n
of brown mud. The woman\u2019s<\/p>\n
tears are a child\u2019s tears.<\/p>\n
The woman\u2019s tears<\/p>\n
become mud balls<\/p>\n
that grow hard as<\/p>\n
compact dirt, the insides<\/p>\n
light and filled<\/p>\n
with hope that<\/p>\n
spills out of her body<\/p>\n
with each of her tears.<\/p>\n
The woman\u2019s tears<\/p>\n
become seeds that<\/p>\n
grow into trees<\/p>\n
that bear nuts<\/p>\n
the shape of her tears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A woman\u2019s tears spill to the ground, her tears spill from the wounds behind her green eyes. They make small balls of brown mud. The woman\u2019s tears are a child\u2019s tears. The woman\u2019s tears become mud balls that grow hard as compact dirt, the insides…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3235,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132787","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\/3235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132802,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132787\/revisions\/132802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}