{"id":75412,"date":"2020-06-28T06:03:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T10:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=75412"},"modified":"2021-04-17T14:40:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T18:40:40","slug":"wishes-from-a-distant-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/wishes-from-a-distant-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Wishes from a Distant Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wishes from a Distant Son<\/p>\n<p>Mother, grief has stolen your angels \u2013<br \/>\ncherubs and seraphs meant to sing<br \/>\nyour strength and victories aloud.<br \/>\nSee why you are innocent of your<br \/>\nidentity. I cannot say you&#8217;re brittle<br \/>\nfor grief to grind into dust, too light<br \/>\nto air into an atmosphere where<br \/>\ndemons with protruding teeth call<br \/>\nyour name, like a demanding child,<br \/>\nshameless and soulless to have pity<br \/>\nupon his mother, a way of lending<br \/>\nto the Lord. Aloud: woe to your grief.<br \/>\nCursed be the distance sundering us.<br \/>\nI mean to say I want solitude to mean<br \/>\na name of your neighbour, looking<br \/>\nafter you in my absence till we live<br \/>\nin a chamber of joyful songs, sung<br \/>\nto a bird in full flight in darkness.<br \/>\nMother, I want to see you singing aloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wishes from a Distant Son Mother, grief has stolen your angels \u2013 cherubs and seraphs meant to sing your strength and victories aloud. See why you are innocent of your identity. I cannot say you&#8217;re brittle for grief to grind into dust, too light to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75412","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\/1398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86343,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75412\/revisions\/86343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}