{"id":36308,"date":"2017-08-05T16:56:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=36308"},"modified":"2017-08-05T16:56:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:56:13","slug":"heat-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/heat-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the lights in the classroom go low. I am sure<br \/>\nthe sound is on, but my thoughts<br \/>\nare warm and heavy like humid summer<br \/>\nevenings and he is sitting<br \/>\nnext to me, tiny bursts of heat<br \/>\nlightning flickering across<br \/>\nthe projector screen in front<br \/>\nof us. his hand edges toward<br \/>\nmine, breathe in breathe out<\/p>\n<p>people say that what we call<br \/>\nheat lightning isn\u2019t real. it\u2019s just<br \/>\na far-off storm but he turns and<br \/>\nasks me did you see that? did<br \/>\nthe lights just flicker? and my heart<br \/>\nbooms like a thunderclap I so<br \/>\ndesperately wish we could hear<\/p>\n<p>he leans toward me as if<br \/>\nhe is going to say something but<br \/>\ndoesn\u2019t, just lingers there like<br \/>\na stormcloud on a sunny day, like<br \/>\nlightning that keeps you waiting<\/p>\n<p>because there is an uncrossable<br \/>\ndistance between us. he is twenty-five<br \/>\nand I am sixteen so we just sit there, watching<br \/>\nthe lightning leap from cloud to cloud, wondering<br \/>\nif there is a place for us somewhere<br \/>\nin the distance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; the lights in the classroom go low. I am sure the sound is on, but my thoughts are warm and heavy like humid summer evenings and he is sitting next to me, tiny bursts of heat lightning flickering across the projector screen in front&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1091,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36308","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\/1091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36322,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36308\/revisions\/36322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}