{"id":137019,"date":"2023-09-02T20:54:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=137019"},"modified":"2023-09-02T21:58:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:58:04","slug":"hour-12-the-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-12-the-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 12: Both\/And Body"},"content":{"rendered":"

Em( \u00a0 )ment<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The body is <\/span>a temple \/ old house \/ balloon<\/span><\/p>\n

visions of self\/future\/health always getting stuck in the attic \/ helium \/ throat\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And the spirits \/ cobwebs \/ voices won\u2019t let them sink down any lower<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The body never arrives \/ dies \/\u00a0 lives because it is already here \/ dead \/ invisible\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With toes \/ talons \/ notions\u00a0 gripping the present \/ past \/ future\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While your lightheaded skull\u00a0 is still stuck in yesterday \/ age 13 \/ age 16 \/ age 2<\/span><\/p>\n

When you first found out about death \/ love \/sex\u00a0 and that it leaves bodies behind\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And were terrified \/ curious \/ surprised enough to call the front desk<\/span><\/p>\n

And request early \/ late check out<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Decapitation and dissociation are the same<\/span><\/p>\n

If you never know a body, you will never have to miss it \/ feel it \/ name it\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But you can still spend a whole afternoon thinking about the backs of your knees \/appendix\/ tonsils \/ spare parts<\/span><\/p>\n

You can think of them without ever knowing them\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thinking and\u00a0 Knowing are not the same\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A body can be reclaimed \/ reborn \/ renamed\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You can crawl into your own \/ someone else\u2019s skin\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Feel your fingers \/ hands \/ palms spread cool gel across your\u00a0 \/ their shins<\/span><\/p>\n

Placing arnica \/ ice \/ kisses over the resulting bruises\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The skin\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That is just one continuous organ \/ map \/ chamber folding over to meet its own parts<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Em( \u00a0 )ment   The body is a temple \/ old house \/ balloon visions of self\/future\/health always getting stuck in the attic \/ helium \/ throat\u00a0 And the spirits \/ cobwebs \/ voices won\u2019t let them sink down any lower   The body never…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137019","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\/5310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137823,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137019\/revisions\/137823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}