{"id":68782,"date":"2020-06-27T17:21:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=68782"},"modified":"2020-06-27T17:21:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:21:39","slug":"cottage-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/cottage-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Cottage Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I pull myself from my lethargy<br \/>\nCurled in the bed of my cottage<\/p>\n<p>The morning is cold<br \/>\nI can see the mist on the treeline<br \/>\nThrough the bedroom window<br \/>\nThe wine bottle on the porch<br \/>\nLights with the last firefly of the evening<br \/>\nLeaving to hibernate for the day<\/p>\n<p>I wrap myself in the comforter<br \/>\nStill warm from the heat of my body<\/p>\n<p>You are making porridge on the stove<br \/>\nLeft discarded on the table<br \/>\nIs the mask you wore last night<br \/>\nWhen we decided to have that strange party<br \/>\nWith all our friends<br \/>\nVia zoom<\/p>\n<p>I walk out onto the porch<br \/>\nMy toes curl inwards from the cold<\/p>\n<p>You come up behind me with a cup of coffee<br \/>\nI wrap my hands around it and feel the heat of your love<br \/>\nYou wrap your arms around me<br \/>\nAnd we watch sparrows zooming through the trees<br \/>\nYou return to tend to the porridge<br \/>\nAnd I sip on my coffee<\/p>\n<p>I walk back into the cottage<br \/>\nAnd sit at the kitchen table<\/p>\n<p>I fiddle with the mask on the table<br \/>\nMy lethargy still pulling at my bones<br \/>\nYou kiss me on the forehead<br \/>\nAnd my heart skips a beat<br \/>\nJust as it always does<br \/>\nWhile alone with you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pull myself from my lethargy Curled in the bed of my cottage The morning is cold I can see the mist on the treeline Through the bedroom window The wine bottle on the porch Lights with the last firefly of the evening Leaving to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68782","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\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68788,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68782\/revisions\/68788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}