{"id":48721,"date":"2019-06-22T12:36:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=48721"},"modified":"2019-06-22T12:36:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:36:17","slug":"almost-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/almost-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost Clean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Almost Clean<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The old farmhouse windows painted shut<\/p>\n<p>Wavy glass with four panes held together<\/p>\n<p>By hardwood strips shedding white flakes<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Air inside in measured climate<\/p>\n<p>No breezes visit bringing a clean draft<\/p>\n<p>Bugs enter through unnoticed cracks<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is the floor dust she ponders when<\/p>\n<p>Making the queen bed each day<\/p>\n<p>New showings of endless shades of gray<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally vacuumed and always<\/p>\n<p>Reached for to drop in the waste<\/p>\n<p>Fuzzy clumps swept with a toe to grab<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Where does this come from she demands<\/p>\n<p>Out loud to no one but the house<\/p>\n<p>Sealed windows are not talking<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not willing to ask friends generously<\/p>\n<p>Blessed with cleaning ladies who<\/p>\n<p>Work only with understandable motes<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That she be judged for her corners<\/p>\n<p>Queries to the old walls reflect not a<\/p>\n<p>Concern for tidiness nor hygiene<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is her curious mind needing to solve<\/p>\n<p>This mystery of immigrant fragments<\/p>\n<p>If only to keep the house almost clean<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tobe TT\u00a0 # 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost Clean &nbsp; The old farmhouse windows painted shut Wavy glass with four panes held together By hardwood strips shedding white flakes &nbsp; Air inside in measured climate No breezes visit bringing a clean draft Bugs enter through unnoticed cracks &nbsp; It is the floor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48721","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\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48763,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48721\/revisions\/48763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}