{"id":87313,"date":"2021-06-26T11:50:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87313"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:43:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:43:04","slug":"87313","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/87313\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem I: Distance is Measured By Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silence between us<br \/>\nsounds like prayers made for a reunion,<br \/>\nlike poems written in the darkness<br \/>\nbut you don&#8217;t return.<br \/>\nThe time is marked<br \/>\non the morse code of my muscles,<br \/>\nthe melanin therein has been completely replaced which is to say<br \/>\nmy skin is forgetting you<br \/>\nand my neurons won&#8217;t remember much longer.<br \/>\nThere are only so many prayers<br \/>\na poet can make<br \/>\nbefore they turn into pleas<br \/>\nwrenched from my heart<br \/>\nand only so many poems<br \/>\na sinner can write<br \/>\nbefore the distance<br \/>\nbecomes a metaphor for you.<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_210626_114532_153.sdocx--><\/p>\n<p>More poetry via Instagram <span class=\"atwho-query\">@anj<\/span>aanography<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silence between us sounds like prayers made for a reunion, like poems written in the darkness but you don&#8217;t return. The time is marked on the morse code of my muscles, the melanin therein has been completely replaced which is to say my skin is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87313","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\/3288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96470,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87313\/revisions\/96470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}