{"id":87470,"date":"2021-06-26T09:22:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87470"},"modified":"2021-06-26T09:23:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:23:26","slug":"87470","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/87470\/","title":{"rendered":"ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>there was a fraying<br \/>\nlike the veins of a tomato plant<br \/>\nnever offered a skeleton of support<br \/>\nfalling over<br \/>\ninto the dirt<br \/>\nready to be wrapped<br \/>\nin a death shroud<\/p>\n<p>seeds never to meet their resurrection<br \/>\npulled and tossed into the garbage instead<br \/>\nduring the shadows of night<br \/>\nno moon<br \/>\nending swoon<\/p>\n<p>but one<br \/>\nsingle<br \/>\npersistent<br \/>\nseed<br \/>\nfloating on the breath of God<br \/>\ncloaked in those same violet shadows<br \/>\nsnuggles up in the muck<br \/>\nis never shucked<br \/>\nbut buries herself in for the fall<br \/>\nfor the winter<br \/>\nfor the spring<br \/>\na garden quilt to tuck her in<\/p>\n<p>waking, shaking off that quilt<br \/>\nas the garden begins April baking<br \/>\nstretching toward something new<br \/>\nand a gardener<br \/>\nwith a frame all ready,<br \/>\noh, this volunteer tomato seed of resilience<br \/>\nbeginning<\/p>\n<p>there will be fraying again<br \/>\nbut this time<br \/>\ninstead of collapse<br \/>\nsupport;<br \/>\nthe natural course of things<br \/>\nfor beauty and tomato thrive<br \/>\nwhen the gardener knows a thing or two about<br \/>\nendings<br \/>\nsurvived<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>there was a fraying like the veins of a tomato plant never offered a skeleton of support falling over into the dirt ready to be wrapped in a death shroud seeds never to meet their resurrection pulled and tossed into the garbage instead during the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87470","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\/803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87742,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87470\/revisions\/87742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}