{"id":144154,"date":"2023-09-03T11:32:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T15:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=144154"},"modified":"2023-09-03T11:32:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T15:32:11","slug":"3-little-poetry-projects-q-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/3-little-poetry-projects-q-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"3 \/ Little Poetry Projects (Q-Tips)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Little Poetry Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Q-Tips are soft small clouds in a glass jar<\/p>\n<p>but on bad days we smell the sulphur lightning<\/p>\n<p>and hear thunder when we scrub our ears for wax.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan you taste the wax?\u201d said Simon,<\/p>\n<p>our cat.\u00a0 \u201cYes\u201d said one of us.\u00a0 \u201cNo\u201d said the others.<\/p>\n<p>Simon has it all figured out now.\u00a0 That poet,<\/p>\n<p>he thinks, knows so little about what matters;<\/p>\n<p>she\u2019ll be one of the first to go.\u00a0 Comme ci comme \u00e7a.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On good days we stroll the boardwalk at Boulevard Park<\/p>\n<p>and I think of my Danish grandmother\u2019s nickname<\/p>\n<p>for me, which is a secret I tell nobody<\/p>\n<p>although Simon knows it and under correct circumstances<\/p>\n<p>he would talk.\u00a0 We lie on the beach, collect rocks<\/p>\n<p>with white rings.\u00a0 It is good luck to throw them<\/p>\n<p>at passing children and if one of us is ever strong<\/p>\n<p>enough to hit a cloud we will control the rain forever.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little Poetry Projects &nbsp; Q-Tips are soft small clouds in a glass jar but on bad days we smell the sulphur lightning and hear thunder when we scrub our ears for wax. \u201cCan you taste the wax?\u201d said Simon, our cat.\u00a0 \u201cYes\u201d said one of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":756,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144154","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\/756"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144180,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144154\/revisions\/144180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}