{"id":71701,"date":"2020-06-27T21:26:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=71701"},"modified":"2020-06-27T22:19:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T02:19:33","slug":"scratch-my-head-sigh-hour-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/scratch-my-head-sigh-hour-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Scratch My Head, Sigh (Hour 13)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scratch my head, sigh,<br \/>\ntouch my lips, shift weight to the other hip.<br \/>\nFingers rest upon the keyboard<br \/>\nwaiting for a thought to direct them.<br \/>\nEyes staring at the glossy black keys,<br \/>\nthe desk lamp light refracted, outshining the fading,<br \/>\nwhite depiction of each letter.<br \/>\nMy mind wanders,<br \/>\nvision blurs at the edges,<br \/>\nWhat is worth writing down?<\/p>\n<p>Sigh, breath in and out,<br \/>\ndetails of an idea, perused, again,<br \/>\nfolded over, scanned, magnified,<br \/>\nstrung up on corkboard<br \/>\ninterconnected with a web of lines,<br \/>\nhinting, searching,<br \/>\nHow to say what hasn\u2019t been said<br \/>\nabout what hasn\u2019t been seen?<\/p>\n<p>The colors, the shapes, the symbols<br \/>\nthat play behind compartments of what I know.<br \/>\nThe parallels I rely on, the juxtapositions I distort,<br \/>\nall trying to speak something,<br \/>\nhinting that there are answers in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>I use to think I would find answers,<br \/>\nbut the longer I live the less I believe there are any.<\/p>\n<p>Scratch my head, sigh, touch my lips, shift weight to the other hip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scratch my head, sigh, touch my lips, shift weight to the other hip. Fingers rest upon the keyboard waiting for a thought to direct them. Eyes staring at the glossy black keys, the desk lamp light refracted, outshining the fading, white depiction of each letter&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71701","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\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71716,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71701\/revisions\/71716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}