{"id":48897,"date":"2019-06-22T12:55:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=48897"},"modified":"2019-06-22T16:35:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T20:35:53","slug":"hour-4-nectar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hour-4-nectar\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 4 – Nectar"},"content":{"rendered":"

I see you as a butterfly <\/span><\/p>\n

as a momentary blur of color<\/span><\/p>\n

a good omen<\/span><\/p>\n

resting momentarily<\/span><\/p>\n

coy and stunning<\/span><\/p>\n

among the silky primrose petals <\/span><\/p>\n

set off by verdant green<\/span><\/p>\n

drinking in the bouquet<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

before bowing and lilting away<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I see you as a moth<\/span><\/p>\n

with torn paper wings<\/span><\/p>\n

full of ambition<\/span><\/p>\n

to greet the moon at its fullest<\/span><\/p>\n

dangling in a star-mottled night sky<\/span><\/p>\n

and settling for the small reading lamp<\/span><\/p>\n

in my apartment <\/span><\/p>\n

ricocheting off the walls<\/span><\/p>\n

and eating my shirts<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I would give you all my flowers<\/span><\/p>\n

take my lights<\/span><\/p>\n

and do what you will with my sweaters<\/span><\/p>\n

it\u2019s summer<\/span><\/p>\n

I won\u2019t need them<\/span><\/p>\n

I see you<\/span><\/p>\n

I will scoop you gently into my hands<\/span><\/p>\n

Walk outside with you <\/span><\/p>\n

And wait\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

brave thing<\/span><\/p>\n

beautiful and scattered thing <\/span><\/p>\n

do not get lost here<\/span><\/p>\n

in hopeful confusion<\/span><\/p>\n

dreamily searching<\/span><\/p>\n

for sweetness<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I see you as a butterfly as a momentary blur of color a good omen resting momentarily coy and stunning among the silky primrose petals set off by verdant green drinking in the bouquet before bowing and lilting away   I see you as a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48897","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\/1292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48936,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48897\/revisions\/48936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}