{"id":1884,"date":"2014-08-23T14:17:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T18:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2014-08-23T15:06:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T19:06:54","slug":"6-poem-in-5-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/6-poem-in-5-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"6. poem in 5 parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poem in 5 parts<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>i.<\/p>\n<p>I am only one person<\/p>\n<p><em>a door opening into mother wife daughter<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>sister grandmother writer\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>a window broken a door unhinged<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>opening into madness<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ii.<\/p>\n<p>I am only one person<\/p>\n<p><em>so I remind myself<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>in the dark hours before morning<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>but morning doesn\u2019t come<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>and the day is full of madness<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>iii.<\/p>\n<p>I am only one person<\/p>\n<p><em>but sometimes I hear voices<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>they sing to me in whispers<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>beneath the murmur of the others<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>many voices many voices<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>iv.<\/p>\n<p>I am only one person<\/p>\n<p><em>and it\u2019s all too much<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I can\u2019t breathe, the man said<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>death is layered over under life<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>and it\u2019s all so much<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>v.<\/p>\n<p>I am only one person<\/p>\n<p><em>this is what they say when I reach out<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>hand so strong, they tell me<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>and aren\u2019t we all<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>only one person<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poem in 5 parts &nbsp; i. I am only one person a door opening into mother wife daughter sister grandmother writer\u00a0\u00a0 a window broken a door unhinged opening into madness \u00a0 ii. I am only one person so I remind myself in the dark hours&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2131,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions\/2131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}