{"id":51250,"date":"2019-06-22T16:43:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T20:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=51250"},"modified":"2019-06-22T16:43:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T20:43:04","slug":"vanishing-point-hour-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/vanishing-point-hour-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanishing Point (Hour 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A whisper over the shoulder,<br \/>\nthe glancing wave of your hair just<br \/>\nout of sight as I turn to chase<br \/>\nsummer shadows across the asphalt.<br \/>\nA memory lingering<br \/>\nin some resonating ache, a hollowness<br \/>\nI felt through the wholeness of my body.<br \/>\nYour face, freckled and smiling,<br \/>\nas if nothing in the last 15 years ever happened.<br \/>\nWe are right back in that place,<br \/>\nthose first months when everything<br \/>\nwas new, the money was steady, our chosen<br \/>\ndelicacies in ready supply, love and<br \/>\nwild adventure burning, my words<br \/>\nfinding their place, the anticipation of<br \/>\nsomething thrilling just ahead.<\/p>\n<p>I choose to forget what I know of reality.<br \/>\nI choose to ignore the restless worry<br \/>\nunsettling itself in my stomach, I suppress the notion<br \/>\nthat this isn&#8217;t real, that this is not how it happened.<br \/>\nI would rather stay here<br \/>\nin this illusion, to see what happens next,<br \/>\nbut by the time I can rationalize<br \/>\nmy choice, my mind has become aware<br \/>\nof its enchantment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A whisper over the shoulder, the glancing wave of your hair just out of sight as I turn to chase summer shadows across the asphalt. A memory lingering in some resonating ache, a hollowness I felt through the wholeness of my body. Your face, freckled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51250","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\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51266,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51250\/revisions\/51266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}