{"id":135172,"date":"2023-09-02T18:25:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=135172"},"modified":"2023-09-02T18:25:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:25:17","slug":"skin-like-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/skin-like-milk\/","title":{"rendered":"Skin like milk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Skin like milk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0My body is a ligament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">protruding from the joy my mother has become.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">All my sons are forming from my rib cage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">All my loss, forming a leakage\u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">A sacrilege of purity and sacrifices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tell me about bone marrow because<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0I do not fear damnation &amp; \u00a0because I\u2019m like a<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">candlestand, pure with purpose, erect with light.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m derobing my spots to cleanse my skin, call it<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Branding, call it the making of a beautiful inferno.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m a special breed of all the beautiful things I know.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">begrudging the tenderness of flowers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m skin like milk skin like butter icing:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">vogue. starch and a covering of flesh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skin like milk. \u00a0My body is a ligament. protruding from the joy my mother has become. All my sons are forming from my rib cage. All my loss, forming a leakage\u2014 A sacrilege of purity and sacrifices. Tell me about bone marrow because \u00a0I do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135172","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\/5283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135175,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135172\/revisions\/135175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}