{"id":33710,"date":"2017-08-05T12:48:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T16:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=33710"},"modified":"2017-08-05T12:48:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T16:48:31","slug":"prompt-4-googling-old-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/prompt-4-googling-old-lovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 4 ~ googling old lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>googling old lovers<\/p>\n<p>I looked for you yesterday<br \/>\nKnowing that your name<br \/>\nThat song of syllables<br \/>\nBequeathed you by a man<br \/>\nAs tall as you perhaps as wild<br \/>\nWould ride the tidal wave<br \/>\nOf names of losses left uncounted<br \/>\nDark hot sorrow<\/p>\n<p>It was a nuclear separation<br \/>\nThe explosive white fire<br \/>\nof my father\u2019s anger<br \/>\nThe warm brown sorrow<br \/>\nof your mother\u2019s foreseeing<br \/>\nThe incandescence of desire<br \/>\nfell from my fingers like notes<br \/>\nof music from plucked strings<br \/>\nOr water heard, unseen<br \/>\nI did not find you<\/p>\n<p>Only your death<br \/>\nthe abrupt end of that road trip<br \/>\nwe once thought we\u2019d take together<br \/>\nthree years after the black hot sorrow<br \/>\nOf my leaving<br \/>\nyou were dust unto dust<br \/>\nBones broken by familiar hate<\/p>\n<p>and now decades past that fire<br \/>\nthe hazy smoke of your name<br \/>\ncurls above the embers<br \/>\nDark<br \/>\nHot<br \/>\nSorrow that I would not feel<br \/>\nCould not submit to<br \/>\nEven now<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>googling old lovers I looked for you yesterday Knowing that your name That song of syllables Bequeathed you by a man As tall as you perhaps as wild Would ride the tidal wave Of names of losses left uncounted Dark hot sorrow It was a&#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-33710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33710","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=33710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33847,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33710\/revisions\/33847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}