{"id":49556,"date":"2019-06-22T13:55:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=49556"},"modified":"2019-06-22T18:20:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T22:20:53","slug":"sleepily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/sleepily\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleepily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your lips touch<br \/>\nmy lips<br \/>\ntentative in quizzical<br \/>\npassion<br \/>\nonce, twice<br \/>\nthird time\u2019s the\u2026<br \/>\nleaning in<br \/>\nyour lips touch<br \/>\nmy lips<br \/>\ntightened anticipation<br \/>\nfirm yet supple<br \/>\nI cannot pull my face<br \/>\nfrom yours<br \/>\nwe have become one<br \/>\nyet I feel you<br \/>\ndissolve<br \/>\nvaporizing away from<br \/>\nme<br \/>\nthoughts ethereal<br \/>\nI hear you speak but you<br \/>\naren\u2019t there<br \/>\nyour lips touch mine<br \/>\nbut you<br \/>\naren\u2019t there<br \/>\nand I know I am<br \/>\nwide awake and alive<br \/>\nbut the dampness<br \/>\npillow on cheek<br \/>\nremembering you<br \/>\ncould not have been there<br \/>\nat all<br \/>\nat last<br \/>\nas every time in the<br \/>\npast has proven<br \/>\nwhat I felt for you then<br \/>\nI still do now<br \/>\nnever reciprocated<br \/>\nunrequited<br \/>\nin death as in life<br \/>\nmattering little as in<br \/>\nan hour or so<br \/>\none of us<br \/>\nwill need to simply<br \/>\nget up, and<br \/>\ngo to work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2019<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd\">http:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your lips touch my lips tentative in quizzical passion once, twice third time\u2019s the\u2026 leaning in your lips touch my lips tightened anticipation firm yet supple I cannot pull my face from yours we have become one yet I feel you dissolve vaporizing away from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49556","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49591,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49556\/revisions\/49591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}