{"id":47526,"date":"2019-06-22T10:51:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=47526"},"modified":"2019-06-22T10:51:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:51:29","slug":"poem-3-the-copper-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/poem-3-the-copper-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 3: &#8220;The Copper Dragon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&#8221; The Copper Dragon&#8221; by Mandy Austin Cook<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>it blinked a quick blink<\/p>\n<div>with an otherwise steady gaze<\/div>\n<div>and a surprisingly flat part to its angeldy head<\/div>\n<div>wound around itself like a glistening ball of glowing copper scales<\/div>\n<div>gleaming in the sunlight.<\/div>\n<div>its forked tongue dashing out with a hypnotic quiet<\/div>\n<div>just looking at me,<\/div>\n<div>as if to understand<\/div>\n<div>what I was about.<\/div>\n<div>I spoke with my eyes but not with my mouth<\/div>\n<div>standing within arm&#8217;s reach gazing with a mutual respect<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I was too young to know the danger<\/div>\n<div>all I saw was metallic patterned magic<\/div>\n<div>a dragon without feet unmoving except for eyes and tongue<\/div>\n<div>and that\u00a0 intoxicating silence in its observation<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>it let me wander on along my way<\/div>\n<div>agreeing to disagree on being friends<\/div>\n<div>the five year old in me was delighted<\/div>\n<div>with the experience<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Until I told my uncle John<\/div>\n<div>Who adventured out barefoot<\/div>\n<div>to silence the Copper Dragon.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221; The Copper Dragon&#8221; by Mandy Austin Cook it blinked a quick blink with an otherwise steady gaze and a surprisingly flat part to its angeldy head wound around itself like a glistening ball of glowing copper scales gleaming in the sunlight. its forked tongue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47526","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\/1301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47539,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47526\/revisions\/47539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}