{"id":137009,"date":"2023-09-02T20:41:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=137009"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:41:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:41:44","slug":"hour-12-09-30-10-30am-visual-prompt-mandala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-12-09-30-10-30am-visual-prompt-mandala\/","title":{"rendered":"(Hour 12) 09.30-10.30am. VISUAL PROMPT: mandala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>a brother<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t believe Ryan found him<br \/>\n&amp; not me , not that it matters.<\/p>\n<p>The fact he\u2019s found is far more<br \/>\nImportant than who found him.<\/p>\n<p>But he\u2019s thin so so thin. Muffled noise<br \/>\nBeneath my arms: <i>Stell I can\u2019t breathe.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Right , of course. I let him go<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Even though I really don\u2019t want to.<\/p>\n<p>I could barely believe my eyes<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Seeing him walking beside Rueben.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly talking machine-gun fast as always<br \/>\nExplaining something about mandalas.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d watched monks on YouTube<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Spend hours making beautiful patterns<\/p>\n<p>Out of coloured sand , taking days<br \/>\nBefore sweeping them all away.<\/p>\n<p>Still stunned , I wasn\u2019t keeping up.<br \/>\n<i>What have mandalas &amp; monks to do with us.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>S\u2019Where I got the idea of sweeping the sand<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i>Behind me everywhere I went. Disguise.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I still didn\u2019t follow. It didn\u2019t matter.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Ryan smiled down at him. Rubbed his hair.<\/p>\n<p>How to make him mine again. <i>You hungry Rube.<br \/>\n<\/i><i>Oh Stell. Like you wouldn\u2019t believe.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&amp; just like that \u2014 he was back<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a brother\u00a0 I can\u2019t believe Ryan found him &amp; not me , not that it matters. The fact he\u2019s found is far more Important than who found him. But he\u2019s thin so so thin. Muffled noise Beneath my arms: Stell I can\u2019t breathe. Right ,&#8230;<\/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":[5772,6038,1552,6144,5498,6153,4921],"class_list":["post-137009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-astellapoem","tag-dropped-the-sky","tag-mandala","tag-reunion","tag-rueben","tag-ya-verse-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137009","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=137009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137024,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137009\/revisions\/137024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}