{"id":35413,"date":"2017-08-05T15:23:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=35413"},"modified":"2017-08-05T15:23:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:23:02","slug":"poem-7-inside-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/poem-7-inside-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 7: Inside Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What would I look like if<br \/>\nyou turned me inside out,<br \/>\nwrapped sharp fingers around my intestines,<br \/>\ndrank the salty-sweet cocktail<br \/>\nof blood and bile,<br \/>\nchewed my wagging tongue,<br \/>\npoked and picked at<br \/>\nthe gristle of my heart?<\/p>\n<p>Would you write<br \/>\nshiny, red stanzas<br \/>\nwith each pump of my heart<br \/>\nwhile sipping the unspoken words<br \/>\nclogging my throat?<br \/>\nBoil my bones in crockpots<br \/>\nwith parsley and onion?<\/p>\n<p>Would you crack brittle ribs<br \/>\nand gnaw through cartilage,<br \/>\nonly to find my name<br \/>\netched across my breastbone?<br \/>\nAnd would you say it,<br \/>\nor pretend you forgot<br \/>\nhow to read?<\/p>\n<p>Would your face grow greasy,<br \/>\nyour knuckles red,<br \/>\nyour knees bruised,<br \/>\nyour tongue sated?<br \/>\nWould you use my finger bones<br \/>\nto pick your teeth?<\/p>\n<p>Am I a feast before you?<br \/>\nA salty afternoon snack?<br \/>\nA sticky, steaming bath?<br \/>\nA bouquet of tangy odors?<br \/>\nA rainbow of fleshy indulgence?<\/p>\n<p>And would the squish of my innards<br \/>\nfinally silence the glittering<br \/>\njudgment that<br \/>\nshines and slices from scissored lips,<br \/>\na scalpel against buttery skin?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would I look like if you turned me inside out, wrapped sharp fingers around my intestines, drank the salty-sweet cocktail of blood and bile, chewed my wagging tongue, poked and picked at the gristle of my heart? Would you write shiny, red stanzas with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":697,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35413","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\/697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35430,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35413\/revisions\/35430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}