{"id":62274,"date":"2020-06-27T09:57:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=62274"},"modified":"2020-06-27T10:59:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T14:59:38","slug":"fashioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/fashioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those dressmaking scissors<br \/>\nHeavy to hold and never to be used<br \/>\nFashioning costumes hiding in<br \/>\nWon prizes every year<br \/>\nSlicing words interspersed nurture<br \/>\nContinuum of dialog<br \/>\nToo early to filter<br \/>\nDressmaker programming those undressed.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy sinking in<br \/>\nCar journeys<br \/>\nHer and I alone<br \/>\nUnfinished house<br \/>\nHe came back so late<br \/>\nSo much shouting<br \/>\nEnglish green agoraphobia<br \/>\nNever a good child.<\/p>\n<p>Exotic from abroad<br \/>\nYet xenophobia for all<br \/>\nAble to create anything<br \/>\nYet mind turned sharp<br \/>\nTold how special I was<br \/>\nYet demon you couldn&#8217;t handle<br \/>\nAmazed with everything looking so skilled<br \/>\nYet cradle pushed, no secure base.<\/p>\n<p>Beholden to what puts it in motion<br \/>\nMarkings strike stars shards and sparks<br \/>\nReflected sameness, unclear heritage<br \/>\nConceptual inheritance with maternal sins<br \/>\nWhat talent, like you, without foundation<br \/>\nSecret love for those with your face<br \/>\nHostile hypersensitive and unsafe<br \/>\nTrying to find your love in hers.<\/p>\n<p>So long walking away,<br \/>\nLeaving me, eyes through letterbox torment<br \/>\nMore than the hardest times<br \/>\nHolding hitting never sure what to do<br \/>\nWith only one of you,<br \/>\nHow would another bring me?<br \/>\nSo much, subtle profound parts of you<br \/>\nLaying roots far enough to survive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those dressmaking scissors Heavy to hold and never to be used Fashioning costumes hiding in Won prizes every year Slicing words interspersed nurture Continuum of dialog Too early to filter Dressmaker programming those undressed. Heavy sinking in Car journeys Her and I alone Unfinished house&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1431,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62274","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\/1431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63440,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62274\/revisions\/63440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}