{"id":2658,"date":"2014-08-23T19:14:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T23:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2014-08-23T20:14:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T00:14:31","slug":"10-ode-to-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/10-ode-to-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"10. Ode to steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ode to steam<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I pull the shot.<\/p>\n<p><em>Like a bullet to the brain, but soft <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Is lightening ever soft? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Vi\u1ec7t Nam you listen to incense<\/p>\n<p><em>A pentatonic scale<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Can fragrant steam sing ?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The surface of the cup<\/p>\n<p>shimmers with fragrance<\/p>\n<p><em>The rich warmth of velvet<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Can you drink velvet?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Condensed milk childhood<\/p>\n<p><em>In <\/em><em>Vi<\/em><em>\u1ec7<\/em><em>t Nam they ice it<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Can you freeze childhood?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Memories curl like steam<\/p>\n<p><em>A boulevard\u00a0\u00a0 a caf\u00e9 \u00a0banyan trees<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Can memory carry me home?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ode to steam &nbsp; I pull the shot. Like a bullet to the brain, but soft Is lightening ever soft? In Vi\u1ec7t Nam you listen to incense A pentatonic scale Can fragrant steam sing ? The surface of the cup shimmers with fragrance The rich&#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-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658","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=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2749,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions\/2749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}