{"id":89027,"date":"2021-06-26T10:59:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=89027"},"modified":"2021-06-26T11:08:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:08:27","slug":"my-eyes-play-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/my-eyes-play-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"My Eyes Play Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something moves just outside my field of vision,<br \/>\nand the ghost of a shadow flits by me.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t even believe in ghosts.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s that stump on our dirt road.<br \/>\nEvery time I approach the hill,<br \/>\nI have to remind myself<br \/>\nit isn&#8217;t an animal perched there,<br \/>\nready to run in front of me.<\/p>\n<p>Clouds come alive. Dragons,<br \/>\npale ocean liners,<br \/>\nthe faces of ancient gods.<\/p>\n<p>In the fan of leaves<br \/>\nI see a bird,<br \/>\nin the rustle of grass<br \/>\na rabbit.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t blame poor eyesight,<br \/>\nbut my imagination<br \/>\nthat a flitter, a flutter,<br \/>\na limb, a leaf,<br \/>\na cloud shadow,<br \/>\nalmost anything at all<br \/>\ncan set in motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something moves just outside my field of vision, and the ghost of a shadow flits by me. I don&#8217;t even believe in ghosts. There&#8217;s that stump on our dirt road. Every time I approach the hill, I have to remind myself it isn&#8217;t an animal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89027","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\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89205,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89027\/revisions\/89205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}