{"id":39581,"date":"2017-08-05T22:46:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T02:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=39581"},"modified":"2017-08-05T22:46:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T02:46:29","slug":"i-believe-in-the-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/i-believe-in-the-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"I believe in the mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe in the mystery,<\/p>\n<p>\u2014of what the frog choir sings<\/p>\n<p>as they vibrate sound oscillating<br \/>\nbreath from lung to vocal cords<br \/>\nin late summer evening light,<br \/>\nthe throaty croaks in full sermon<br \/>\nat the pulpit of love.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014of how a wrist to elbow<\/p>\n<p>measures the length of your foot,<br \/>\nor fingertip to fingertip is my height<br \/>\nAnd the width of your mouth<br \/>\nMaps the distance of pupil to pupil.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014of the steam rising from tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p>Beans, grape, radicchio, cucumbers,<br \/>\nAnd basil after the mid-day heat-pour<br \/>\nOr the churning earthworm writhing<br \/>\nTo the sound of five beating hearts.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014of the soulless men who\u2019d peculate<\/p>\n<p>Our children\u2019s futures on a handshake<br \/>\nRob their health for pocketed pennies<br \/>\nBy those who love their babies too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe in the mystery, \u2014of what the frog choir sings as they vibrate sound oscillating breath from lung to vocal cords in late summer evening light, the throaty croaks in full sermon at the pulpit of love. \u2014of how a wrist to elbow measures&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39581","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39583,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39581\/revisions\/39583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}