{"id":133941,"date":"2023-09-02T17:31:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133941"},"modified":"2023-09-02T18:01:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:01:39","slug":"2023-poetry-marathon-poem-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/2023-poetry-marathon-poem-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Words in the Bayou (2023 Poem Nine)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Words in the Bayou<\/p>\n<p>Watching you discard the raw beet left from dinner<br \/>\nI pull my jacket tighter closed against the bonfire smoke<br \/>\nTo dispel my tremor from this October evening<\/p>\n<p>Do you recall our last night upon the bayou?<br \/>\nWalking hand in elbow in the dusk<br \/>\nOur front porch lightbulb growing faint<br \/>\nScent of cinnamon wafting on the breeze<\/p>\n<p>The rain began as though pouring from a bucket<br \/>\nCalling elk broke the silence between us<br \/>\nAs we ran back, laughing, sheltering in the carport<\/p>\n<p>(Prompt: Use this list of ten words. Please pick at least five of them to use in your poem. If you want to use all ten, please do so. Words are: beet jacket tremor bayou elbow lightbulb cinnamon bucket elk carport)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words in the Bayou Watching you discard the raw beet left from dinner I pull my jacket tighter closed against the bonfire smoke To dispel my tremor from this October evening Do you recall our last night upon the bayou? Walking hand in elbow in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1285,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[5787],"class_list":["post-133941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2023-poetry-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133941","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\/1285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133941"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134369,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133941\/revisions\/134369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}