\u00a0Alone\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Blowing through a Target parking lot,<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0In the desert.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n A saucy Irishman once told me,<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0He found them after his sister died.<\/span><\/p>\n They were stuck in grass,<\/span><\/p>\n Or doing cartwheels down the road,<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0Snowflakes from an angel just beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Her death was violent,<\/span><\/p>\n Her memory broken,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Peace was offered in each discovery of another<\/span><\/p>\n White<\/span><\/p>\n Feather.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Legend or myth,<\/span><\/p>\n Religion or faith,<\/span><\/p>\n The feather was shed from an unseen wing,<\/span><\/p>\n As an offering to rest the mind, and continue to love.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I peeled the white feather off my windshield,<\/span><\/p>\n And slid it inside my wallet.<\/span><\/p>\n A hand from the dead on my shoulder,<\/span><\/p>\n A whisper in my ear,<\/span><\/p>\n Peace,<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0Peace be with you,<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0Squeeze of my hand and release,<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0See me through.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Who it was<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0Is my secret to keep.<\/span><\/p>\n A smile, a wink,<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0Go back to sleep.<\/span><\/p>\n Prompt 22, Hour 22<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A white feather, \u00a0Alone\u00a0 Blowing through a Target parking lot, \u00a0\u00a0In the desert.\u00a0 A saucy Irishman once told me, \u00a0He found them after his sister died. They were stuck in grass, Or doing cartwheels down the road, \u00a0Snowflakes from an angel just beyond….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3243,272,1076],"class_list":["post-76129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-prompt22","tag-hour-22","tag-prompt-22"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76129","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\/1329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79352,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76129\/revisions\/79352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/marjanblan-HkEyTPzIugs-unsplash-scaled.jpg\")
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