{"id":25410,"date":"2016-08-13T22:19:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T02:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=25410"},"modified":"2016-08-13T22:19:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T02:19:52","slug":"poem-14-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/poem-14-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A concrete windowsill<br \/>\non a house<br \/>\na place where the caterpillar chose<br \/>\nto create its cocoon<br \/>\non this day, breaks open<br \/>\nbirthing a butterfly<br \/>\nwhich dries its wings, shaded,<br \/>\nby the brick house<\/p>\n<p>Twilight enters the city<br \/>\non the south side of St. Louis,<br \/>\na street lined<br \/>\nwith brick structures<br \/>\noverhead, a bat, smaller than<br \/>\nthe chimney sweeps,<br \/>\nflies along, gobbling up<br \/>\nunsuspecting insects <\/p>\n<p>At the office, outside the entryway<br \/>\nlies a bird, on concrete<br \/>\nblack and white stripes,<br \/>\nalong its breast, a yellow crown<br \/>\non his head, dead,<br \/>\nthe ants have begun to dine<br \/>\nkilled by colliding<br \/>\nwith tempered glass<\/p>\n<p>Dragonflies, of majestic colors<br \/>\nin different sizes<br \/>\nslice through the parking lot<br \/>\non silent wings<br \/>\nhovering,<br \/>\nover the cars<br \/>\nmesmerized<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A concrete windowsill on a house a place where the caterpillar chose to create its cocoon on this day, breaks open birthing a butterfly which dries its wings, shaded, by the brick house Twilight enters the city on the south side of St. Louis, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25410","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\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25460,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25410\/revisions\/25460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}