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animkiig<\/em><\/p>\n standing on the lake shore. black sky arches in a perfect \u201cc,\u201d cupping the lake as if to hold it in its palm. the lightning comes toward me.\u00a0 in front of me.<\/p>\n behind me a group of people, concerned for their safety, cry for protection from the storm.\u00a0 i tell them they are safe with me.\u00a0 on the horizon<\/p>\n with the flash of lightning<\/p>\n the animkiig come.\u00a0 i turn to the people<\/p>\n \u201cthey are here for me.\u00a0 go now!\u201d<\/p>\n beating wings whip wind around me<\/p>\n sharp feathers slice me.<\/p>\n i see them come<\/p>\n claws reaching down,<\/p>\n digging deep into the flesh of my shoulder,<\/p>\n left shoulder<\/p>\n to perch<\/p>\n or carry me off with them.<\/p>\n i knew they came for me to stand in the place of the others\u2026<\/p>\n as i stood in this storm on this slate grey shore on this ink black lake.<\/p>\n (c) r.l. elke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" animkiig standing on the lake shore. black sky arches in a perfect \u201cc,\u201d cupping the lake as if to hold it in its palm. the lightning comes toward me.\u00a0 in front of me. behind me a group of people, concerned for their safety, cry…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50304","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50319,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50304\/revisions\/50319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}