{"id":38204,"date":"2017-08-05T20:03:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38204"},"modified":"2017-08-05T20:03:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:03:30","slug":"widdershins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/widdershins\/","title":{"rendered":"Widdershins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turn me widdershins,<br \/>\ntake the breath from<br \/>\nmy chest, peel me in<br \/>\nside out, a fraction<br \/>\nof who I could have been.<\/p>\n<p>Turn me widdershins,<br \/>\npluck the grey from<br \/>\nmy scalp, boil it<br \/>\nin oil, deep fried<br \/>\nmeaning, crust on<br \/>\nseasoned cast iron,<br \/>\nmirror image of my intent.<\/p>\n<p>Turn me widdersins,<br \/>\nand leave the scarf<br \/>\naround my brow so I<br \/>\ncan pretend I&#8217;m blind&#8211;<br \/>\nI can see underneath<br \/>\nif I tilt my head just right.<\/p>\n<p>Turn me widdershins,<br \/>\ntake what I earned, what<br \/>\nI fought for, and burn<br \/>\nit in my front yard,<br \/>\nignoring my cries while<br \/>\nI cook fried chicken inside.<\/p>\n<p>Turn me widdershins<br \/>\nand give back what I lost<br \/>\nto cheap beer and<br \/>\nMarlboro Milds, the years<br \/>\nbefore my first child,<br \/>\nspectrum miracle I never expected.<\/p>\n<p>Turn me widdershins<br \/>\nand believe me when I<br \/>\nspeak of sacrifice and lace,<br \/>\nan unspoken apology,<br \/>\nplease don&#8217;t make me<br \/>\nsay it. Love me anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Turn me widdershins,<br \/>\nturn back the years until<br \/>\nI&#8217;m young again, a full<br \/>\nperson under law, before<br \/>\nmy skull was split and spliced,<br \/>\nwhen I knew what I wanted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turn me widdershins, take the breath from my chest, peel me in side out, a fraction of who I could have been. Turn me widdershins, pluck the grey from my scalp, boil it in oil, deep fried meaning, crust on seasoned cast iron, mirror image&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38204","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\/1119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38276,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38204\/revisions\/38276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}