{"id":39877,"date":"2017-08-05T23:39:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T03:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=39877"},"modified":"2017-08-05T23:39:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T03:39:54","slug":"tap-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/tap-dancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Tap Dancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><\/p>\n<p>I love re-telling ancient myths in modern settings. I've done a couple before and have one in mind to re-tell the story of Eros and Psyche, with Psyche being blind rather than blindfolded. I struggle to think of how to re-set that one though, so I'm turning to a different myth for this hour \u2014 the story of Narcissus, who falls in love with his own reflection in a lake.<\/p>\n<h1>Tap Dancing<\/h1>\n<p>Time slows down at the dripping tap<br \/>\nwhere a yelow hose lies limply<br \/>\nuncoiled like a snail-trail <br \/>\nleading back to a green shell.<\/p>\n<p>An adolescent <br \/>\nsent to dowse the plants<br \/>\nstands<br \/>\ntransfixed<br \/>\ndrip<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\tdrip<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\tdrip<\/p>\n<p>Cheekbones and nose<br \/>\ncaptive in the graceful reflections<br \/>\nfall<br \/>\nto rest<br \/>\nadoringly,<br \/>\nblinklessly gazing back at the sky<\/p>\n<p>Tap Dancing<br \/>\n*****<\/p>\n<p>Time slows down at the dripping tap<br \/>\nwhere a yelow hose lies limply<br \/>\nuncoiled like a snail-trail<br \/>\nleading back to a green shell.<\/p>\n<p>An adolescent<br \/>\nsent to dowse the plants<br \/>\nstands<br \/>\ntransfixed<br \/>\ndrip<\/p>\n<p>drip<\/p>\n<p>drip<\/p>\n<p>cheekbones and nose<br \/>\ncaptive in the graceful reflections<br \/>\nfall<br \/>\nto rest<br \/>\nadoringly,<br \/>\nblinklessly gazing back at the sky <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love re-telling ancient myths in modern settings. I&#8217;ve done a couple before and have one in mind to re-tell the story of Eros and Psyche, with Psyche being blind rather than blindfolded. I struggle to think of how to re-set that one though, so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":964,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39877","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\/964"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39893,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39877\/revisions\/39893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}