{"id":55434,"date":"2019-06-23T02:37:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T06:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=55434"},"modified":"2019-06-23T02:37:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T06:37:56","slug":"too-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/too-brief\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too Brief<br \/>\nVirginia Carraway Stark <\/p>\n<p>In the winter the days go by too quick<br \/>\nAnd you miss the sun<br \/>\nIn the summer the night&#8217;s are too brief<br \/>\nAnd you miss the dark<br \/>\nThe moon becomes a pale faced stranger<br \/>\nWho whispers in the light<br \/>\nThe stars are distant wanderers<br \/>\nForeigners<br \/>\nYou used to love<br \/>\nIn the dark if winter<br \/>\nIt is the sun who becomes pale and wan<br \/>\nHe never comes too close<br \/>\nhe only peers over mountain ranges<br \/>\nAs though afraid of the dark himself<br \/>\nOr perhaps the cold blackens his light<br \/>\nThe stars become magnificent,<br \/>\nMagnified by the closeness to the polar wind<br \/>\nAnd their waltz with those<br \/>\nConspirators<br \/>\nWho crackle like old hags<br \/>\nAnd make no better background<br \/>\nTo the imminent meteor showers<br \/>\nPulling back their pink, green, white and blue<br \/>\nCurtains of midnight colours<br \/>\nTo reveal the cosmic show<br \/>\nThat freezes in your lungs<br \/>\nAnd reddens your cheeks<br \/>\nAs yet another too brief season<br \/>\nPlays out its drama in the sky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too Brief Virginia Carraway Stark In the winter the days go by too quick And you miss the sun In the summer the night&#8217;s are too brief And you miss the dark The moon becomes a pale faced stranger Who whispers in the light The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2530,3019,3251,960,53,52],"class_list":["post-55434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-amwriting","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-soltice-poetry","tag-starklight","tag-starklight-press","tag-virginia-carraway-stark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55434","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55847,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55434\/revisions\/55847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}