{"id":1688,"date":"2014-08-23T11:57:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T15:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2014-08-23T11:57:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T15:57:01","slug":"elegy-continues-with-l-a-sunshine-stirred-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/elegy-continues-with-l-a-sunshine-stirred-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Elegy continues &#8230; with L.A. sunshine stirred in &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is history re-written?<\/p>\n<p>Buy booze but not new boots.<br \/>\nLiquid creativity, she claims.<br \/>\nHer choices are a map indicating her true north.<br \/>\nIs her compass cracked or perhaps she is geographically-challenged?<\/p>\n<p>She awaits the half summer light.<br \/>\nSwallows more white lightning, but holds Time in a bottle.<br \/>\nMaybe she&#8217;ll buy new sandals.<br \/>\nOr booze and go barefoot. It&#8217;ll be summer, after all.<br \/>\nShe reads others&#8217; work and makes a new resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Positive space is sometimes as important as its counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>The next page opens to sand on a beach.<br \/>\nTo what and to whom does one say no?<\/p>\n<p>****<br \/>\nCaryolyn Forche\u2019s poem Elegy (from the book angel of History), &#8220;The page opens to snow on a field: boot holed month, black hour\/ the bottle in your coat half vodka half winter light.\/ To what and to whom does one say yes?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is history re-written? Buy booze but not new boots. Liquid creativity, she claims. Her choices are a map indicating her true north. Is her compass cracked or perhaps she is geographically-challenged? She awaits the half summer light. Swallows more white lightning, but holds Time in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","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\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1708,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}