{"id":135390,"date":"2023-09-02T19:05:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=135390"},"modified":"2023-09-04T00:38:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T04:38:18","slug":"the-untelling-hour-9-9-2-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-untelling-hour-9-9-2-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"The Untelling – Hour #9 9\/2\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I volunteered to untell the story.<\/p>\n

I came back to erase an idea<\/p>\n

Because some thoughts are meant to be buried<\/p>\n

Some before they even begin.”<\/p>\n

Rya, from the movie\u00a0In the Shadow of the Moon<\/span> (2019, Netflix)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

On those humid summer evenings<\/p>\n

Pregnant stars driven back by streetlights<\/p>\n

The children would gather around a flickering flashlight<\/p>\n

Crowded together in that flimsy tent<\/p>\n

And tell fantastical tales of the great undoing.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It takes a child’s eye<\/p>\n

to remember the future<\/p>\n

where words failed<\/p>\n

covenant devolved into curse<\/p>\n

where monsters were necessary,<\/p>\n

heroes and she-roes few,<\/p>\n

bold, overmatched, outflanked…and necessary<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Perhaps children are so wise<\/p>\n

because they have to deal with us…<\/p>\n

and the bitter medicine of childhood,<\/p>\n

that power to untell the wounding<\/p>\n

comes when we are weak and still small<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But…because they are still small enough<\/p>\n

that their wings can still lift their weight<\/p>\n

the small spark inside still knows how to seek the flickering flashlight,<\/p>\n

that crowding together in a flimsy tent is still medicine,<\/p>\n

and so is untelling the cutting lie<\/p>\n

before the monsters become necessary<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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