{"id":27279,"date":"2016-08-14T08:50:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T12:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=27279"},"modified":"2016-08-14T08:50:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T12:50:02","slug":"calling-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/calling-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling to You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calling to you<br \/>\nholding half a lung back from screaming your name<br \/>\nor yelling through the ambiguous silence of a thousand leaves<br \/>\nfalling at once on this November day<br \/>\nalmost as if I could whisper and the stems of red oaks would<br \/>\nconvey that trickled sound from my lips to the corner of your ear.<\/p>\n<p>The white of your eyes no different than autumn&#8217;s grey dome<br \/>\nin lieu of rain and still brighter than its ashen cascade.<br \/>\nI am without jacket and have been since April.<br \/>\nThe God that lives outside of my head hunkered over<br \/>\nand listening to all the nothing in there<br \/>\nlike there&#8217;s only a fan blowing<br \/>\nand silence catches drift. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never seen the northern lights<br \/>\nor the blood moon<br \/>\nbut I have seen you turning to your name<br \/>\nunder the purging of every tree on campus<br \/>\nand walking to me<br \/>\nand I wished you could be the first to hear these thoughts<br \/>\nchurning like a spark of heaven<br \/>\nin a hellish mind. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling to you holding half a lung back from screaming your name or yelling through the ambiguous silence of a thousand leaves falling at once on this November day almost as if I could whisper and the stems of red oaks would convey that trickled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":717,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27279","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\/717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28839,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27279\/revisions\/28839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}