{"id":6972,"date":"2015-06-13T10:11:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T14:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=6972"},"modified":"2015-06-13T10:11:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T14:11:58","slug":"you-loved-me-best-in-your-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/you-loved-me-best-in-your-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"You Loved Me Best in Your Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d often leave our bed at night<\/p>\n

silent, with you still sleeping<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and return each time on<\/p>\n

soft-socked feet; to find<\/p>\n

your sprawl warming my side.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Without breaking snore, you’d<\/p>\n

slide back to yours (gone cold)<\/p>\n

and open wide the covers<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

a gaping nest of your curves<\/p>\n

and cradles; your heat flowing<\/p>\n

out in waves I could taste.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I’d slip in and be drawn,<\/p>\n

(sense sodden)<\/p>\n

into your crook; you’d hold<\/p>\n

me like warmed satin steel<\/p>\n

until my shivers left.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

You rarely remembered these<\/p>\n

moments; I never forgot.<\/p>\n

Perhaps they’re why I woke up.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

You always loved me best<\/p>\n

in your sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d often leave our bed at night silent, with you still sleeping   and return each time on soft-socked feet; to find your sprawl warming my side.   Without breaking snore, you’d slide back to yours (gone cold) and open wide the covers   a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972","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\/634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7066,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972\/revisions\/7066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}