{"id":61067,"date":"2020-06-27T20:30:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=61067"},"modified":"2020-06-27T20:30:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:30:54","slug":"misgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/misgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Misgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 494px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/65\/e9\/4a\/65e94ab4b044d0b8ca19697c4c4dc73f.jpg\" width=\"494\" height=\"750\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image retrieved from https:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/65\/e9\/4a\/65e94ab4b044d0b8ca19697c4c4dc73f.jpg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Misgiving<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emotions are fleeting, but leave shadows in their wake.<\/p>\n<p>They follow stalk-eyed, peering through<\/p>\n<p>magnified lenses&#8211;watching as you undress.<\/p>\n<p>the folds of clothing fall in crumpled heaps<\/p>\n<p>and the voices slither from them,<\/p>\n<p>drumming the ear like fingers on a table.<\/p>\n<p>waiting patiently for a reaction.<\/p>\n<p>It creeps across flesh, reaching into the depths<\/p>\n<p>stretching&#8211;feeling its way into the creases,<\/p>\n<p>provoking ill-favored sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>They glide down the barrel<\/p>\n<p>twisting a crook around the trigger&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>pulling it repeatedly like threads from a hem.<\/p>\n<p>The shadows split the stitching<\/p>\n<p>guarding your heart<\/p>\n<p>and reach into the cavity to retrieve<\/p>\n<p>the soulful cries of<\/p>\n<p>what was lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Misgiving Emotions are fleeting, but leave shadows in their wake. They follow stalk-eyed, peering through magnified lenses&#8211;watching as you undress. the folds of clothing fall in crumpled heaps and the voices slither from them, drumming the ear like fingers on a table. waiting patiently&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1485,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3442,361,1368,1630,3808,3423],"class_list":["post-61067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2020poetrymarathon","tag-anxiety","tag-depression","tag-insomnia","tag-jvstanley","tag-ptsd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61067","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\/1485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71098,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61067\/revisions\/71098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}