{"id":76083,"date":"2020-06-28T07:35:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=76083"},"modified":"2020-06-28T07:35:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:35:53","slug":"a-staircase-in-the-woods-hour-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/a-staircase-in-the-woods-hour-23\/","title":{"rendered":"A STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS – Hour 23"},"content":{"rendered":"

A STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Rip Van Winkle still sleeps out in the woods<\/span><\/p>\n

not everyone develops an aversion to trauma<\/span><\/p>\n

or Patty Hearst would have a different story<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

nowadays folks just think he\u2019s on something<\/span><\/p>\n

another lonely soul wandering until their death of despair<\/span><\/p>\n

no hand reaching out to pull anyone back from the Other Side<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201che ate faerie food himself,\u201d they cluck with false sympathy<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201ctis a terrible fate it\u2019s true, but still, twas not I who bade him wander<\/span><\/p>\n

in the deep dark woods so late and all alone\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

we can change the story a thousand times<\/span><\/p>\n

palette-swap your villains to sell sensationalized habits<\/span><\/p>\n

blame the pain to disregard the warning<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

they\u2019ll say \u201cfolks know better in this part of town\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

as he staggers by, haggard with a clean new bottle<\/span><\/p>\n

back into the dark forest to search for another way<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

hoping he\u2019ll find a staircase from nowhere to nowhere<\/span><\/p>\n

standing alone in a dappled green clearing<\/span><\/p>\n

so he can climb up into another dimension<\/span><\/p>\n

and finally come unstuck<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS   Rip Van Winkle still sleeps out in the woods not everyone develops an aversion to trauma or Patty Hearst would have a different story   nowadays folks just think he\u2019s on something another lonely soul wandering until their death…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76083","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\/1491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76094,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76083\/revisions\/76094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}