{"id":39851,"date":"2017-08-05T23:48:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T03:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=39851"},"modified":"2017-08-05T23:48:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T03:48:55","slug":"hour-fifteen-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-fifteen-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Fifteen, Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metamorphosis<\/p>\n<p>I drove out to the desert<br \/>\none cold and moonlit night<br \/>\nin December, testing the theory<br \/>\nof animals speaking human<br \/>\ntongues at midnight Christmas Eve.<br \/>\nMy whimsy taught me far older<br \/>\nwisdom, plunged into a deeper<br \/>\npast than my Christian forebears<br \/>\ncould ever willingly admit.<\/p>\n<p>The flickering flames that warmed<br \/>\nmy body freed my mind to wander,<br \/>\nmysterious sounds layering the night:<br \/>\ncrackling and popping mesquite,<br \/>\nscreeing crickets, and the shivering<br \/>\nululation of a single coyote&#8217;s cry<br \/>\nto the waxing moon. The night<br \/>\ndeepened, approached its zenith,<br \/>\nand as the moon and wood smoke<br \/>\nvied for supremacy, they coalesced<br \/>\nin front of my eyes to a long snout,<br \/>\ngleaming teeth, golden eyes,<br \/>\nand a throaty voice that emerged<br \/>\nas if from the night itself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Welcome,&#8221; Loki grunted,<br \/>\n&#8220;You&#8217;ve taken too long to return, sister,&#8221;<br \/>\nand with that a long pink tongue<br \/>\nswiped my cheek, and I howled<br \/>\nan irresistible duet with my brother,<br \/>\nin furred glory to the engorged,<br \/>\nengaging, brilliant moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metamorphosis I drove out to the desert one cold and moonlit night in December, testing the theory of animals speaking human tongues at midnight Christmas Eve. My whimsy taught me far older wisdom, plunged into a deeper past than my Christian forebears could ever willingly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39851","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39945,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39851\/revisions\/39945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}