{"id":75788,"date":"2020-06-28T06:59:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T10:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=75788"},"modified":"2021-04-17T14:41:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T18:41:31","slug":"before-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/before-dawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before Dawn<\/p>\n<p>Your worries, a mansion too high<br \/>\nfor me to glide over without wings.<br \/>\nI would have stolen you and slay<br \/>\nwhatever stays our way to wedge us<br \/>\nfor loneliness to stitch its venom<br \/>\ninto us again. How can you be<br \/>\nalone in these walls where fears<br \/>\ncome in the regalia of night and<br \/>\nnightmares are too impatient to<br \/>\nwait for darkness to swallow light.<br \/>\nA feather of a holy bird won&#8217;t do<br \/>\nthe magic; at least, there&#8217;s a sign<br \/>\nof light in the outskirts of a cave,<br \/>\na home for the bruised, longing<br \/>\nfor the promised light, like crystals.<br \/>\nI do not fear if these walls have ears<br \/>\nlike the one in the tales grandpa<br \/>\ntold me. Poke your ears into the flesh<br \/>\nof these walls, and hear the deluge<br \/>\nof songs like the rain in Noah&#8217;s day.<br \/>\nEcho it aloud; you must return into<br \/>\nyour body before the next dawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Dawn Your worries, a mansion too high for me to glide over without wings. I would have stolen you and slay whatever stays our way to wedge us for loneliness to stitch its venom into us again. How can you be alone in these&#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-75788","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\/75788","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=75788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86344,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75788\/revisions\/86344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}