{"id":140043,"date":"2023-09-03T02:23:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T06:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=140043"},"modified":"2023-09-03T02:24:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T06:24:16","slug":"peripheral-ghosts-prompt-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/peripheral-ghosts-prompt-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Peripheral Ghosts (prompt 18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my last long relationship ended<br \/>\nmuch like my childhood felt<br \/>\nthe vague haunting of a roommate<br \/>\nthough none were ever seen<\/p>\n<p>a shower mat left on the floor<br \/>\nnew pile of dirty dishes<br \/>\nthe coffee maker empty<br \/>\nstill warm<br \/>\n(my bed just the same)<\/p>\n<p>the doors here are like magic<br \/>\nopen and close all on their own<br \/>\nwhen summer comes<br \/>\nthe chilly draft is almost tolerable<\/p>\n<p>if there were a sighting<br \/>\nit vanished on the spot<br \/>\na peripheral kind of love<br \/>\nI had grown quite used to<\/p>\n<p>the more I tried to force connection<br \/>\nthe more ghosts grew evasive<br \/>\nbetter still than slamming objects<br \/>\nor screaming through the walls<\/p>\n<p>without something to physically grasp<br \/>\nI often wonder if it was all imagined<br \/>\nif my paranoid mind created apparitions<br \/>\nto make me feel less alone<\/p>\n<p>or maybe I am the ghost instead<br \/>\nthe one that lingers after all life has gone<br \/>\nwith no one left to tell me<br \/>\nthat I&#8217;m not really here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my last long relationship ended much like my childhood felt the vague haunting of a roommate though none were ever seen a shower mat left on the floor new pile of dirty dishes the coffee maker empty still warm (my bed just the same) the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140043","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\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140171,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140043\/revisions\/140171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}