{"id":14275,"date":"2015-06-14T08:28:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T12:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=14275"},"modified":"2015-06-14T08:28:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T12:28:14","slug":"poem-22-love-poem-to-eb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/poem-22-love-poem-to-eb\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 22:  Love Poem to EB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know you don\u2019t know I exist,<br \/>\nand if you did, you wouldn\u2019t want<br \/>\nme around, there being nothing new<br \/>\nI could teach you about Florida.<br \/>\nHell, you camped for days in the<br \/>\nTen Thousand Islands, and took<br \/>\ntoo many pills on Fort Myers Beach,<br \/>\nmeaning to die there, if Sha hadn\u2019t<br \/>\nfound you. So forgive me, Elizabeth<br \/>\nBishop, for stealing your lines when I<br \/>\nneed a great finish, like rainbow, rainbow,<br \/>\nrainbow, or somebody loves us all.<br \/>\nYou help me, daily, even when I\u2019m not<br \/>\nwriting poetry, obsessively. You help me<br \/>\npractice, losing farther, losing faster, as<br \/>\nwe are all losing the time we crave, to finish<br \/>\nwhat we started. I love you, EB. Rest in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know you don\u2019t know I exist, and if you did, you wouldn\u2019t want me around, there being nothing new I could teach you about Florida. Hell, you camped for days in the Ten Thousand Islands, and took too many pills on Fort Myers Beach,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14275","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\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14279,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14275\/revisions\/14279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}