{"id":50140,"date":"2019-06-22T14:50:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T18:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=50140"},"modified":"2019-06-22T14:50:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T18:50:04","slug":"poem-7-the-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/poem-7-the-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 7: &#8220;The Reflection&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":or\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":1sc\" class=\"a3s aXjCH \">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>&#8220;The Reflection&#8221; by Mandy Austin Cook<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>why do i have to see that now?<\/div>\n<div>the You that you so masterfully hid from me<\/div>\n<div>lurking beneath the fake like layers of\u00a0 lake<\/div>\n<div>muddy under clear &#8211; appearing water?<\/div>\n<div>why can&#8217;t I still<\/div>\n<div>continue to\u00a0 blindly see<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0the reflection that i wanted?<\/div>\n<div>it was only wishes shimmered back<\/div>\n<div>like rippling through rivers of light with a pebble<\/div>\n<div>this is what I thought I wanted<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0but I reach for it,<\/div>\n<div>and it\u00a0 dissipates<\/div>\n<div>into the\u00a0 staleness of the shuddering nothing.<\/div>\n<div>What remains is a void.<\/div>\n<div>I acknowledge the illusion,<\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m just mourning the reflection.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hi\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Reflection&#8221; by Mandy Austin Cook why do i have to see that now? the You that you so masterfully hid from me lurking beneath the fake like layers of\u00a0 lake muddy under clear &#8211; appearing water? why can&#8217;t I still continue to\u00a0 blindly see&#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-50140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50140","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=50140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50171,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50140\/revisions\/50171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}