{"id":18409,"date":"2016-08-13T10:25:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=18409"},"modified":"2016-08-13T10:25:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:25:42","slug":"a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/a-man\/","title":{"rendered":"A Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man seeks to keep his love<\/p>\n<p>under an arm&#8217;s distance<\/p>\n<p>a gun shot&#8217;s trajectory<\/p>\n<p>invisible line<\/p>\n<p>across an isolating barren sea&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>beauty&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>as a man is wont to do<\/p>\n<p>protect his own<\/p>\n<p>by killing the barriers out there&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>outside<\/p>\n<p>without opening, closed bloom.<\/p>\n<p>And the man that would capture me so,<\/p>\n<p>would eat me bleeding<\/p>\n<p>as he shot the waves away,<\/p>\n<p>reaching our limits only he sees out there,<\/p>\n<p>across the divide,<\/p>\n<p>but I see between us,<\/p>\n<p>passing over like summer<\/p>\n<p>between us&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>not knowing we&#8217;re gone<\/p>\n<p>til the sun set.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18513\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-2-300x150.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-2-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-2-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-2-800x400.png 800w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-2.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man seeks to keep his love under an arm&#8217;s distance a gun shot&#8217;s trajectory invisible line across an isolating barren sea&#8211; beauty&#8211; as a man is wont to do protect his own by killing the barriers out there&#8211; outside without opening, closed bloom. And&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18409","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18522,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18409\/revisions\/18522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}