{"id":22393,"date":"2016-08-13T16:44:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22393"},"modified":"2016-08-20T22:57:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T02:57:34","slug":"prompt-hour-eight-pantoum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/prompt-hour-eight-pantoum\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt Hour Eight&#8211;Pantoum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22542\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Unarmed-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Unarmed\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Unarmed-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Unarmed-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Unarmed.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unarmed<\/p>\n<p>Walking the lonely path under a leaden sky,<br \/>\npierced by winter-stripped overhanging branches,<br \/>\nmy feet were bleached and puckered<br \/>\nin sodden shoes, unarmed against the weather.<\/p>\n<p>Pierced by winter-stripped overhanging branches,<br \/>\nmy arms were colder still,<br \/>\nand I, in sodden shoes, remained\u00a0unarmed against the weather<br \/>\nas splashing footsteps approached quickly from behind.<\/p>\n<p>My arms were colder still<br \/>\nthan the warning in my heart<br \/>\nas splashing footsteps approached\u00a0quickly from\u00a0behind<br \/>\nand I risked an over the shoulder glance.<\/p>\n<p>The warning in my heart<br \/>\ndid not prepare me for the warmest voice<br \/>\nand I risked\u00a0another over the shoulder glance<br \/>\nat\u00a0that voice, issuing from under a too small umbrella.<\/p>\n<p>I was not prepared for the warmest voice,<br \/>\nthe timbre of melted kisses and cinnamon toast,<br \/>\na voice\u00a0issuing from under a too small umbrella<br \/>\nthat offered shelter in a tentative tone, daring me to accept.<\/p>\n<p>Melted kisses and cinnamon toast<br \/>\nbecame the breakfast meal for two connected souls<br \/>\nafter\u00a0shelter was offered,\u00a0in\u00a0a tentative tone that\u00a0dared me to accept<br \/>\nthe inner warmth of shared shelter, and the lesser chill of outer, uncovered arms.<\/p>\n<p>Tracy Plath<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unarmed Walking the lonely path under a leaden sky, pierced by winter-stripped overhanging branches, my feet were bleached and puckered in sodden shoes, unarmed against the weather. Pierced by winter-stripped overhanging branches, my arms were colder still, and I, in sodden shoes, remained\u00a0unarmed against the&#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-22393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22393","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=22393"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29769,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22393\/revisions\/29769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}