{"id":8535,"date":"2015-06-13T15:12:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T19:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=8535"},"modified":"2015-06-14T03:21:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T07:21:43","slug":"feathered-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/feathered-flies\/","title":{"rendered":"Feathered Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plop.<br \/>\nSwish.<br \/>\nKxsh.<\/p>\n<p>Plop.<br \/>\nSwish.<br \/>\nKxsh.<\/p>\n<p>Plop.<br \/>\nSwish.<br \/>\nKxsh.<\/p>\n<p>The water smells of rubber soles.<br \/>\nDownstream they know<br \/>\nAnd hide.<\/p>\n<p>Plop.<br \/>\nSwish.<br \/>\nKxsh.<\/p>\n<p>Plop.<br \/>\nSwish.<br \/>\nKxsh.<\/p>\n<p>Plop.<br \/>\nSwish.<br \/>\nKxsh.<\/p>\n<p>A strange insect<br \/>\nOf\u00a0feathered wings<br \/>\nLands, then jumps.<\/p>\n<p>There it is again!<br \/>\nPerhaps a swarm<br \/>\nOf feathered food!<\/p>\n<p>Plop.<br \/>\nSwish.<br \/>\nKxsh.<\/p>\n<p>Plop.<br \/>\nSwish.<br \/>\nKxsh.<\/p>\n<p>Plop.<br \/>\nSwish.<br \/>\nKxsh.<\/p>\n<p>Stupid insects!<br \/>\nHow they dance<br \/>\nWith rhythmic respect.<\/p>\n<p>Here we go!<br \/>\nDance, oh thou<br \/>\nFeathered wings aglow.<\/p>\n<p>Plop.<br \/>\nSwish.<br \/>\nKxsh.<\/p>\n<p>Plop.<br \/>\nSwish.<br \/>\nKxsh.<\/p>\n<p>Plop.<br \/>\nSwish.<\/p>\n<p>Gotcha!<br \/>\nEchos from the wiggling space.<\/p>\n<p>Sharp.<br \/>\nPain.<br \/>\nPulls.<\/p>\n<p>Tastes of unfamiliar ions<br \/>\nAnd birds.<br \/>\nGills filled with air,<br \/>\nI am caught.<\/p>\n<p>Beware the fisherman, they said in school.<br \/>\nBeware the fisherman who makes a fool<br \/>\nOf even the wisest of trout.<\/p>\n<p>He fishes down at the water&#8217;s edge.<br \/>\nWe know him, they said.<br \/>\nThey told me so.<\/p>\n<p>You know him by the fins he wears<br \/>\nNothing in the water bears<br \/>\nSuch stench or undertow.<br \/>\nThey block the flow,<br \/>\nYou know.<\/p>\n<p>I scream and fight<br \/>\nAnd warn my hundred brothers<br \/>\nHundred others<br \/>\nWho survived the journey here.<\/p>\n<p>Beware the fisher&#8230;<br \/>\nThey do not hear.<\/p>\n<p>Plop.<br \/>\nSwish.<br \/>\nKxsh.<\/p>\n<p>Plop.<br \/>\nSwish.<br \/>\nKxsh.<\/p>\n<p>Plop.<br \/>\nSwish.<br \/>\nKxsh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plop. Swish. Kxsh. Plop. Swish. Kxsh. Plop. Swish. Kxsh. The water smells of rubber soles. Downstream they know And hide. Plop. Swish. Kxsh. Plop. Swish. Kxsh. Plop. Swish. Kxsh. A strange insect Of\u00a0feathered wings Lands, then jumps. There it is again! Perhaps a swarm Of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8535","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\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9217,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8535\/revisions\/9217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}