Butterfly curses<\/b><\/p>\n
Can\u2019t believe you deliberately chose beets<\/p>\n
That jacket doesn\u2019t suit you, denim never does<\/p>\n
Why does my lip tremor when you speak<\/p>\n
Eyes that suck me in like mangrove mud<\/p>\n
Elbow made of electricity every time it brushes\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Smile like a lightbulb going off<\/p>\n Soft cinnamon scent always in your hair<\/p>\n Heart big as a front end loader bucket<\/p>\n Always angry as a wild cassowary<\/p>\n A carport I\u2019d huddle beneath come summer storms<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Butterfly curses Can\u2019t believe you deliberately chose beets That jacket doesn\u2019t suit you, denim never does Why does my lip tremor when you speak Eyes that suck me in like mangrove mud Elbow made of electricity every time it brushes\u00a0 Smile like a lightbulb going…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[5772,5947,6038,6062,1552,6063,4921],"class_list":["post-134069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-aryanpoem","tag-astellapoem","tag-dialogue-poem","tag-dropped-the-sky","tag-will-need-editing-once-marathon-is-over","tag-ya-verse-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134069","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\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134430,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134069\/revisions\/134430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}*given I am an\u00a0<\/em>Australian poet, I have changed 2 words which do not suit my poems being set in Oz. Cassowary for Elk & Mangrove for Bayou. Nonetheless the original words did their jobs by forcing me to think in images I wouldn’t have done without the prompts.<\/i><\/h6>\n
**In editing post marathon I will probably also jiggle the line order but I like giving myself little side tasks & for this prompt I always aim to use all 10 words in the order they appear, despite my dislike of CARPORT being the final word in the list hahahaha!!!<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"