{"id":74564,"date":"2020-06-28T04:07:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T08:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=74564"},"modified":"2020-06-28T04:07:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T08:07:14","slug":"color-drip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/color-drip\/","title":{"rendered":"Color Drip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dip a finger in the melted wax<\/p>\n<p>Cool on your finger, hardening<\/p>\n<p>Fire is dancing<\/p>\n<p>A cigarette lit from flame<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He once told me that smoking is the most<\/p>\n<p>Intimate you can get with fire<\/p>\n<p>Swirling in your lungs<\/p>\n<p>Elbowing everything on its way out<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cancer is inevitable<\/p>\n<p>In the moment I don&#8217;t mind<\/p>\n<p>For now this ember I&#8217;m sucking on<\/p>\n<p>Is my torch<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Glow of string lights in a backyard<\/p>\n<p>Firepit roaring<\/p>\n<p>An excuse as to why I smell smokey<\/p>\n<p>Flames intoxicating<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A candle on my desk<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in an old wine bottle<\/p>\n<p>Echoing a crescendo of laughter<\/p>\n<p>Rings of color within, like the rings in a tree<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Spilling over the bottle<\/p>\n<p>Forging its own path<\/p>\n<p>Settling into the cool glass<\/p>\n<p>I will not disturb it<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here I will write<\/p>\n<p>In the dancing gold<\/p>\n<p>Flickering on my paper<\/p>\n<p>Words entangled with smoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dip a finger in the melted wax Cool on your finger, hardening Fire is dancing A cigarette lit from flame &nbsp; He once told me that smoking is the most Intimate you can get with fire Swirling in your lungs Elbowing everything on its way&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74564","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\/1204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74615,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74564\/revisions\/74615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}