Deeply rooted, planted firmly, time has softened my bones.<\/p>\n
Once, palms that cradled faces now gone, even the structure<\/p>\n
suggested, the curve of moss like flesh, and the trees groan<\/p>\n
with my voice, their roots like veins, arteries, and somewhere<\/p>\n
deep in vegetable memory was a dusty table, wooden floors<\/p>\n
and heartwood bright and deep, slow kisses on lips<\/p>\n
now long since faded, and the remains of me buried deep<\/p>\n
in bracken and old memory. If you tread here, step lightly,<\/p>\n
feel the reverence of my joy touch you, my life still golden here<\/p>\n
long after I am dust and my ghost no longer skirts<\/p>\n
the edges of eternal dreamless sleep and memories<\/p>\n
soft, full, honey-warm and sweet, and the hubris<\/p>\n
and ugly matter that made me undone, leaving only<\/p>\n
peace, silence, and the slow unmaking of a woman gone, still loved<\/p>\n
by the trees, the mushrooms, the moss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Deeply rooted, planted firmly, time has softened my bones. Once, palms that cradled faces now gone, even the structure suggested, the curve of moss like flesh, and the trees groan with my voice, their roots like veins, arteries, and somewhere deep in vegetable memory was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72102","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\/72102","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\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72194,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72102\/revisions\/72194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}