{"id":136732,"date":"2023-09-02T20:22:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136732"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:22:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:22:07","slug":"prompt-12-in-the-closet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/prompt-12-in-the-closet\/","title":{"rendered":"prompt #12 &#8212; in the closet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Closets<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">People tell me stories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mostly their own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">How her beloved came out<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">as trans, and how she left him<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>her<\/em>.\u00a0 And how s\/he wants<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">to be friends, and how she can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">How her husband was a serial cheat<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">unfaithful with her best friend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">How her own sister<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">had to tell him no.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">And I wonder: am I a kind of closet?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">As they offer me their stories<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">is it a kind of coming out?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Requiring trust, and a doorway<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">opening into sharing\u2026?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is it about closets, anyway?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">That we place our secrets deep<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">within them, that walking out<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">of them is a declaration<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">a kind of freeing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">And am I a kind of doorknob..?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Closets People tell me stories. Mostly their own. How her beloved came out as trans, and how she left him her.\u00a0 And how s\/he wants to be friends, and how she can\u2019t. How her husband was a serial cheat unfaithful with her best friend. How&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136732","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136758,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136732\/revisions\/136758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}