Prompt 5 (hour 4) star image ~<\/p>\n
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The nights you call to me<\/p>\n
you have to see this<\/em><\/p>\n your face as bright as Venus<\/p>\n that star we know is love<\/p>\n and here: in the garden<\/p>\n on the patio\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 outside the door<\/p>\n not laying on a table for discovery<\/p>\n by some medical student<\/p>\n promised your remains<\/p>\n \u2018just in case it all goes wrong\u2019<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The stars almost as bright as fireflies<\/p>\n which cluster like incandescent grapes<\/p>\n within the sheltering branches<\/p>\n of the tulip poplar next door<\/p>\n or those: the fireflies Morse coding<\/p>\n some unfathomable message I know<\/p>\n only because you are here<\/p>\n beckoning me to join you<\/p>\n alive\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 breathing<\/p>\n as bright as starlight<\/p>\n but closer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prompt 5 (hour 4) star image ~ The nights you call to me you have to see this your face as bright as Venus that star we know is love and here: in the garden on the patio\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 outside the door not laying…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":48521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48498","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48526,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48498\/revisions\/48526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}