{"id":54602,"date":"2019-06-22T23:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T03:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=54602"},"modified":"2019-07-04T16:50:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T20:50:19","slug":"cross-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/cross-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 14, Borderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parched and twisted,<br \/>\nmy mind reflected the desert<br \/>\nsurrounding me this last year,<br \/>\nemptied and lost.<\/p>\n<p>The sun there scorches<br \/>\nand thins all it touches,<br \/>\na child&#8217;s plastic rattle<br \/>\nhalf buried in the ocher dust<br \/>\nshattered in my hand<br \/>\nwhen pulled, brittle shards,<br \/>\nand I bled.<\/p>\n<p>I have been concentrated<br \/>\ndown to essential elements,<br \/>\nall extraneous softness<br \/>\nnear completely drawn away,<br \/>\ndispersed into the driving winds.<\/p>\n<p>Bone and blood yearns<br \/>\nfor that which I once knew:<br \/>\nverdant grasses rippling<br \/>\nin a softer, soughing breeze,<br \/>\ntrees like sentinels on the horizon<br \/>\nguarding entrance to Eden,<br \/>\nand my tissues expanding to store<br \/>\nthe humid green that hovers<br \/>\nwithin the very air,<br \/>\nthe path appearing<br \/>\nbefore me, pulled home.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe land knows you, even when you are lost.\u201d Robin Wall-Kimmerer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parched and twisted, my mind reflected the desert surrounding me this last year, emptied and lost. The sun there scorches and thins all it touches, a child&#8217;s plastic rattle half buried in the ocher dust shattered in my hand when pulled, brittle shards, and I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,13,12,2114,1136,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54602","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54602"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59103,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54602\/revisions\/59103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}