{"id":40435,"date":"2017-08-06T01:19:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T05:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=40435"},"modified":"2022-06-27T18:50:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T22:50:24","slug":"black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/black\/","title":{"rendered":"Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8\/5\/17 10:19pm<br \/>\nBlack<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been bargaining for loss<br \/>\nSwitched it left to right<br \/>\nThe slight of hand<br \/>\nSwapped a name in place<br \/>\nof what could&#8217;ve been a grave.<br \/>\nStill you&#8217;ve stayed just inside the edges.<br \/>\nThe finger-less gloves<br \/>\nwithin one state<br \/>\neither direction.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re still the extension of me<br \/>\nblood leaking from the same vein<br \/>\nInky and familiar<br \/>\nMy sticky home.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll never have to say goodbye.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re designer draped<br \/>\nshaped to fit my skin.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s chewed into a name<br \/>\nThat I&#8217;ll carry til the end of my days.<\/p>\n<p>You have a proper family<br \/>\nroads traveled in opposite directions<br \/>\nBut the earth is round and you&#8217;re always driving<br \/>\nright back to yourself.<br \/>\nMy chest meets at the crest<br \/>\nsunlight peaking through the spaces<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re holding my hand through it all.<br \/>\nHomecoming and knowing<br \/>\nThat we&#8217;ve never left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8\/5\/17 10:19pm Black I&#8217;ve been bargaining for loss Switched it left to right The slight of hand Swapped a name in place of what could&#8217;ve been a grave. Still you&#8217;ve stayed just inside the edges. The finger-less gloves within one state either direction. You&#8217;re still&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40435","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\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123940,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40435\/revisions\/123940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}