{"id":17972,"date":"2016-08-13T09:52:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=17972"},"modified":"2016-08-18T09:42:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T13:42:02","slug":"prompt-one-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/prompt-one-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt One&#8211;The End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28765\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caretaker-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"Caretaker\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caretaker-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caretaker-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caretaker-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caretaker.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Caretaker<\/p>\n<p>As I gazed at the day room<br \/>\nthe\u00a0head nurse shuffled through,<br \/>\nchecking pulses and giving orders.<br \/>\nThe\u00a0carpenter slid along the walls<br \/>\n<em>tap, tap, tapping <\/em>for\u00a0unseen studs.<br \/>\nThe\u00a0Wall Street broker\u00a0yelled<br \/>\ninto resident phones\u00a0<em>sell, sell, sell!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Slippery layers cradled within the skull<br \/>\nnestle gently against one another.<br \/>\nWhirls and folds\u00a0contain the essence<br \/>\nof\u00a0humanity,\u00a0a seemingly random<br \/>\njumble\u00a0of gray flesh that is in fact<br \/>\nthe backlit cosmos of each\u00a0person,<br \/>\nunknown and unknowable beyond<br \/>\nouter\u00a0myelinated mannerisms,<br \/>\nremembrance in\u00a0repeated motion.<\/p>\n<p>Tendrils of dementia infiltrate\u00a0layers<br \/>\nlike wood smoke on a cloudy night,<br \/>\nextinguish\u00a0the memory of a child&#8217;s name,<br \/>\na lover&#8217;s face,\u00a0ember by glowing ember,<br \/>\ngone, but for the <em>tap, tap, tapping<\/em>,<br \/>\nthe <em>sell, sell, selling<\/em>,<br \/>\nand the gentle, cool fingers<br \/>\nplaced on the wrists<br \/>\nof other ghosting,\u00a0fleshly shells.<\/p>\n<p>Tracy Plath<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caretaker As I gazed at the day room the\u00a0head nurse shuffled through, checking pulses and giving orders. The\u00a0carpenter slid along the walls tap, tap, tapping for\u00a0unseen studs. The\u00a0Wall Street broker\u00a0yelled into resident phones\u00a0sell, sell, sell! Slippery layers cradled within the skull nestle gently against one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17972","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17972"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29619,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17972\/revisions\/29619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}