{"id":2198,"date":"2014-08-23T14:39:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T18:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2014-08-23T15:07:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T19:07:38","slug":"7-to-what-do-you-say-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/7-to-what-do-you-say-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"7. To what do you say yes&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>To what and to whom do you say yes?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ with apologies to Carolyn Forch\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In August, we blaze with light<\/p>\n<p><em>corona<\/em>: plasma aura for a universe<\/p>\n<p>without centre, light broken free<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I say <em>yes <\/em>to this uncentering<\/p>\n<p><em>Yes<\/em> to the emptiness that carried<\/p>\n<p>light within it, held my life together<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Yes<\/em> to the wings of solar wind<\/p>\n<p>that lift me out of disbelief<\/p>\n<p>wings that spiral into other lives<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I say <em>yes<\/em> when all around me<\/p>\n<p>a dark world insists that <em>no<\/em><\/p>\n<p>is the only sane answer<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I say <em>yes<\/em> to that, too<\/p>\n<p>lean into the fleeing light<\/p>\n<p>and wonder about darkness<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To what and to whom do you say yes? ~ with apologies to Carolyn Forch\u00e9 &nbsp; In August, we blaze with light corona: plasma aura for a universe without centre, light broken free &nbsp; I say yes to this uncentering Yes to the emptiness that&#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-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","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=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}