{"id":41339,"date":"2017-08-06T03:49:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T07:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=41339"},"modified":"2017-08-06T03:49:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T07:49:24","slug":"table-for-two-hour-18-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/table-for-two-hour-18-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"TABLE FOR TWO (hour 18, 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me sit awhile, here, on your porch.<\/p>\n

Let me relax, and recall what it\u2019s like to be still<\/p>\n

and present, as if there were no past<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

to shuffle around like so many doctored photos<\/p>\n

of meals I once ate, hotels I once slept in,<\/p>\n

friends and exes, and others I once loved.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Let me rest here awhile, quietly at home<\/p>\n

amongst the sleeping teacups & saucers for two \u2013<\/p>\n

as if that were my childhood\u2019s doll and my dearest<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

whose chair has just now been abandoned for places unknown.<\/p>\n

Let me pour out memory\u2019s delicate brew, savor the downhill view.<\/p>\n

Let me imagine this is a memory I once recalled.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Berthe Morisot, Doll on a Porch,<\/em> 1884 private collection, Portland<\/p>\n

— viewed in Women Impressionists<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let me sit awhile, here, on your porch. Let me relax, and recall what it\u2019s like to be still and present, as if there were no past   to shuffle around like so many doctored photos of meals I once ate, hotels I once slept…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41339","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\/768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41354,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41339\/revisions\/41354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}