{"id":14087,"date":"2015-06-14T07:58:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T11:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=14087"},"modified":"2015-06-14T07:59:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T11:59:44","slug":"witch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/witch-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Witch 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once, I could predict the gender of infants before birth.\u00a0 If I<\/p>\n

focused now, I could still do it.\u00a0 But how do you do this?<\/em><\/p>\n

By getting to know the parents.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

These days, though, I let it go.\u00a0 I see the flood and release it<\/p>\n

where it needs to be.\u00a0 Sometimes, pretending not to know<\/p>\n

is better, although not for myself.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Lately, I’ve been struck by certain deaths.\u00a0 I haven’t uttered<\/p>\n

a word, but I see them walking around, the stones around<\/p>\n

their necks, waiting to jump into the sea.\u00a0 I see them looking<\/p>\n

around, searching for gaps between the rocks, hoping and<\/p>\n

not hoping they’ll be noticed, their eyes straight ahead<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and then, with unbelievable suddenness, jump off from the<\/p>\n

heights, seeing only peace at the bottom of the cliff.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a9\u00a0 Ella Wagemakers, 13.59 Dutch time (= \u00a07.55 EST in the US)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once, I could predict the gender of infants before birth.\u00a0 If I focused now, I could still do it.\u00a0 But how do you do this? By getting to know the parents.   These days, though, I let it go.\u00a0 I see the flood and release…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14087","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\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14102,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14087\/revisions\/14102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}