Boardwalk<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I never could have dreamed<\/p>\n
of craggy snow peaked mountains<\/p>\n
as the matter of fact backdrop<\/p>\n
to the lakes and rivers of the west.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The skyscrapers that defined tall<\/p>\n
would be a speck against them.<\/p>\n
And the boardwalk that I trek almost<\/p>\n
daily along Bellingham Bay<\/p>\n
reminds me that I\u2019m free<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
from childhood chains and expectations<\/p>\n
city streets with altercations<\/p>\n
smoggy skies like fabrications<\/p>\n
and a life lived on cement.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Once I hitched away<\/p>\n
from a place I couldn\u2019t stay.<\/p>\n
Did a hippie form of a ballet<\/p>\n
from trashcan alleys<\/p>\n
and their decay.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I see a boardwalk in a picture<\/p>\n
by a lake that is a mixture<\/p>\n
of rugged mountains and a walkway<\/p>\n
like a doorway from dismay.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
And when I got here<\/p>\n
the world said play.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Boardwalk I never could have dreamed of craggy snow peaked mountains as the matter of fact backdrop to the lakes and rivers of the west. The skyscrapers that defined tall would be a speck against them. And the boardwalk that I trek almost…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23402","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23413,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23402\/revisions\/23413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}