{"id":41901,"date":"2017-08-06T05:28:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T09:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=41901"},"modified":"2017-08-06T05:28:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T09:28:06","slug":"isabella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/isabella\/","title":{"rendered":"Isabella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My eyes burn before<br \/>\nmy feet do, wrists<br \/>\nbound behind me to<br \/>\na pole. What have I<br \/>\ndone wrong? My nose<br \/>\nruns, I shift my<br \/>\nright foot away from<br \/>\nthe smoldering stack.<br \/>\nMy back aches. Someone<br \/>\nsave me. Save me. Kill<br \/>\nme now. A flame pulls<br \/>\nitself out of the mound.<br \/>\nAnother. I feel fevered.<br \/>\nI shift my weight again,<br \/>\nbut my lungs ache. I pull<br \/>\nat the rope on my wrists.<br \/>\nRaw. Keep pulling. The fire<br \/>\ngrowls toward the sky, hissing<br \/>\nwith flame teeth, gnashing like<br \/>\na rabid dog. My heart is a rabbit.<br \/>\nCornered. What have I done wrong? I<br \/>\nsqueeze the pole against my spine, pull<br \/>\ndown with my arms, wiggle and stretch upward,<br \/>\naway. I move half as far as a first year cone,<br \/>\nfall down into the blaze. It needs me. It needs<br \/>\nme. My toenails blacken. I scream until my throat<br \/>\nis as raw as my wrists. I smell cooked meat. It&#8217;s me.<br \/>\nI know. My calf ruptures. I hear it before I feel it. What<br \/>\nhave I done wrong? I don&#8217;t forgive you. You cannot be absolved.<br \/>\nCarry me with you. Watch my lashes burn. Save me. Save me. Save me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My eyes burn before my feet do, wrists bound behind me to a pole. What have I done wrong? My nose runs, I shift my right foot away from the smoldering stack. My back aches. Someone save me. Save me. Kill me now. A flame&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41901","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\/1119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41940,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41901\/revisions\/41940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}