{"id":21814,"date":"2016-08-13T16:31:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=21814"},"modified":"2016-08-13T17:35:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:35:36","slug":"still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/still\/","title":{"rendered":"still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>still<\/p>\n<p>i exhume no worry when i see<\/p>\n<p>sun spears glinting around your head,<\/p>\n<p>poised to strike us down. on bear lake<\/p>\n<p>the wind got so heavy our boat drifted<\/p>\n<p>off with two anchors down.<\/p>\n<p>i would dash your name<\/p>\n<p>in the dust-film of old countertop,<\/p>\n<p>clutter the air with specks of scribble.<\/p>\n<p>the cottage sleeps all day long, while<\/p>\n<p>we him in its belly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>against<\/p>\n<p>the driftwood spine of boardwalk,<\/p>\n<p>you sit,<\/p>\n<p>legs flowing<\/p>\n<p>off the edge, twin<\/p>\n<p>waterfalls paused at toetip<\/p>\n<p>before they collapse into shimmer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>how can you<\/p>\n<p>still<\/p>\n<p>hold my lungs taut in fear.<\/p>\n<p>how can you<\/p>\n<p>still hold me with your voice,<\/p>\n<p>when to close your lips<\/p>\n<p>is to let go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>still i exhume no worry when i see sun spears glinting around your head, poised to strike us down. on bear lake the wind got so heavy our boat drifted off with two anchors down. i would dash your name in the dust-film of old&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":717,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21814","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\/717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21814"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23055,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21814\/revisions\/23055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}