{"id":32687,"date":"2017-08-05T11:59:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T15:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=32687"},"modified":"2017-08-05T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:46:08","slug":"ode-to-the-color-of-the-sea-when-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/ode-to-the-color-of-the-sea-when-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to the Color of the Sea When Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A frothy green rushes down the Skagit,<br \/>\nand later, that same hue streams<br \/>\nhigh up the Nooksack. Then a wall<br \/>\nof the sea, lacy with the sheen of glaciers\u2014\u2014<br \/>\nsame tint. Same lush emotion overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<p>The blue sea, the teal, the gray<br \/>\nare mute by comparison.<br \/>\nThe orange sea, the golden and the red,<br \/>\ncan\u2019t they just quiet down for a bit?<\/p>\n<p>Sea green is a hammock, and the sleep;<br \/>\na flurry of vivid dreams; a love<br \/>\nthat beckons gently.<\/p>\n<p>The sudden colorful shout,<br \/>\nalarming, and somehow comforting.<\/p>\n<p>The impact of this rich verdant<br \/>\nis to jump in, join the swiftness<br \/>\nof the river, and to drown without sorrow.<br \/>\nThis watery heaven. So satisfying.<br \/>\nYet, because of the addiction for more<br \/>\nof this shade, the leap is out of the question.<\/p>\n<p>The tallest evergreens try<br \/>\nto become sane as that, and fail.<\/p>\n<p>As do certain sour apples, and<br \/>\nthe irises that peer through the fog.<br \/>\nThe brightness of the sea green caterpillar<br \/>\ncame before the chrysalis,<br \/>\nbefore butterfly or egg. <\/p>\n<p>Just a sip of this carbonated green<br \/>\nof the sea intoxicates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A frothy green rushes down the Skagit, and later, that same hue streams high up the Nooksack. Then a wall of the sea, lacy with the sheen of glaciers\u2014\u2014 same tint. Same lush emotion overwhelmed. The blue sea, the teal, the gray are mute by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32687","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\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34457,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32687\/revisions\/34457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}