{"id":88157,"date":"2021-06-26T09:55:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=88157"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:48:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:48:33","slug":"hour-1-on-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-1-on-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour #1 (On ending)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lightly you strike me<\/p>\n<p>With gentile confidence, a casual pause of thought<\/p>\n<p>Knowing exactly when to hit me<\/p>\n<p>To push you forward<\/p>\n<p>Into that next<\/p>\n<p>Here.<\/p>\n<p>And for a while<\/p>\n<p>We have a rhythm, you and me<\/p>\n<p>Tap, tap, tap, tap\u2014strike<\/p>\n<p>But then,<\/p>\n<p>You veer from our simpatico<\/p>\n<p>Silence at first<\/p>\n<p>So I take a long breath<\/p>\n<p>Then I can feel in your touch something else<\/p>\n<p>Angry, sweaty deliberation<\/p>\n<p>Tic Tok, tick tok<\/p>\n<p>The hour wants you now<\/p>\n<p>And you will take it out on me<\/p>\n<p>So the strikes become a beating<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t do, can\u2019t do, can\u2019t do<\/p>\n<p>Punching like a desperate boxer<\/p>\n<p>Knowing there\u2019s no point<\/p>\n<p>Because you can\u2019t finish this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Lightly you strike me With gentile confidence, a casual pause of thought Knowing exactly when to hit me To push you forward Into that next Here. And for a while We have a rhythm, you and me Tap, tap, tap, tap\u2014strike But then, You&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88157","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\/959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88182,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88157\/revisions\/88182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}