{"id":65583,"date":"2020-06-27T13:30:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=65583"},"modified":"2020-07-24T22:48:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T02:48:24","slug":"gold-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/gold-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He wrapped tightly wound coils around his fingers<br \/>\nSmoothing the frayed kinks with his thumb<br \/>\nHis eyes, like blue goldstone, sparkled<br \/>\nTiny, gold flecks glittered as sunlight poured into the room<br \/>\nFlooding his face with a magical glow<br \/>\nAs if his face was a gift from the Old Gods<br \/>\nLeft on my doorstep<\/p>\n<p>His lips, shaped like the perfect bow<br \/>\nSoft and dark<br \/>\nWere the ribbons that I got to unwind<br \/>\nThe tip of his ochre nose<br \/>\nWas the thin piece of tape<br \/>\nThat, when I touched it just right<br \/>\nReleased the gift of his smile and a full-bodied laugh<br \/>\nThat reverberated on the surface of my skin<\/p>\n<p>I could stay like this<br \/>\nCounting the almost black freckles<br \/>\nScattered across his cheeks<br \/>\nUntil my breath became weak<br \/>\nAnd my mind began to fade<\/p>\n<p>But I wouldn&#8217;t<br \/>\nBecause the thought of existing without him<br \/>\nWhether here or somewhere else in time and space<br \/>\nFilled me with a sadness I never knew existed<br \/>\nYes, I could survive it<br \/>\nBut question was<br \/>\nWould I want to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He wrapped tightly wound coils around his fingers Smoothing the frayed kinks with his thumb His eyes, like blue goldstone, sparkled Tiny, gold flecks glittered as sunlight poured into the room Flooding his face with a magical glow As if his face was a gift&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65583","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\/1373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79381,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65583\/revisions\/79381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}