What will I write about? Fleeting recollections?
\nThe leaf motif on the duvet? Shadows created
\nby the streetlights? They do not leave, they merely
\nwait till the lights get weary and fall asleep. That
\nis darkness, heavy and thick with patience
\nbecause it has nothing to lose, not even envy.<\/p>\n
We were more alive during the war.<\/p>\n
What am I to do with you, fake woman
\nwho carried me, blurred face who looked at me,
\ncracked pot that threw me away? Pointed heels
\non the cobblestones shining in the rain, their hard
\nmorning cheeks cleaned by sleep. Afternoons
\nare for leaving things behind, easily, so many stones
\nwith faces, so many faces looking like stones.<\/p>\n
Anna was Anna, but Claire was complicated.<\/p>\n
What about the usual moon? Someone noticed
\nthat it was spiraling away, year after year a little
\nfurther, each time the breadth of a fingernail,
\na marble down an endless slope, useless dilations.
\nWill the lovers notice? Will the turtles arrive?
\nFewer eggs for the fascist gulls, less bigotry.<\/p>\n
I could take a drive to the pliant, indifferent sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What will I write about? Fleeting recollections? The leaf motif on the duvet? Shadows created by the streetlights? They do not leave, they merely wait till the lights get weary and fall asleep. That is darkness, heavy and thick with patience because it has nothing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61921","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\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62506,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61921\/revisions\/62506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}