{"id":136778,"date":"2023-09-02T20:25:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136778"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:25:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:25:23","slug":"twelve-closets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/twelve-closets\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve: Closets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Closets<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Twelve<\/em><br \/>\n<em>TW for incest\/childhood sexual assault<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never been one to hide my queerness.<br \/>\nNor my heathen faith<\/p>\n<p>I understand the safety many find within closets<br \/>\nHow hiding themselves away from the world prevents injury,<br \/>\nWrapping up in the comfort of conformity<\/p>\n<p>I, too, escaped abuse in hiding.<br \/>\nI spent a childhood peeing on old clothing<br \/>\nIn the back of your bedroom closet<br \/>\nTrying to avoid walking past my father\u2019s hungry hands<br \/>\nSneaking the soiled pieces away as best I could so young<br \/>\nWhile he spoiled the best of me<br \/>\nYear after year<\/p>\n<p>But closets only served to reinforce the shame<br \/>\nAnd he was going to take from my innocence<br \/>\nregardless of where I tried to hide it.<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019ve never been one to hide myself away<br \/>\nHow could I imitate conformity<br \/>\nWhen closets never protected me to begin with?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-136616 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8783-scaled-1-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8783-scaled-1-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8783-scaled-1-1024x738.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8783-scaled-1-768x553.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8783-scaled-1-1536x1106.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8783-scaled-1-2048x1475.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Closets Twelve TW for incest\/childhood sexual assault I\u2019ve never been one to hide my queerness. Nor my heathen faith I understand the safety many find within closets How hiding themselves away from the world prevents injury, Wrapping up in the comfort of conformity I, too,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3239,"featured_media":136616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136778","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\/3239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136791,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136778\/revisions\/136791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}