{"id":90897,"date":"2021-06-26T12:56:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90897"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:56:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:56:49","slug":"hour-4-grazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-4-grazing\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 4, Grazing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><b>Grazing<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">after Matt Rasmussen<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I know you didn\u2019t choose this place to die \/ you chose another \/ but I still imagine the shoulder of your favorite chair \/ spattered with red. \/ I cannot help \/ each time I curl my neck onto the cushion \/ like a bird preening its feathers \/ but to think about the absence \/ at the meeting of your skull and neck \/ or at least that is where I imagine it \/ the bullet\u2019s nest \/ though I suppose I don\u2019t know where the cavern laid \/ but my scar runs across my first vertebrae \/ a pink line across the grassy landscape of my scalp \/ and I\u2019d like to think your ghost shares the same. \/ But I digress \/ this chair is where I mourned you \/ where I still mourn you \/ silently and with a smile \/ stretched across sharpened teeth \/ as I chat with family \/ as they see me laugh so hard I cry \/ and rehydrate the leather once more \/ differently now that I\u2019m observed \/ but I sit here and \/\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;I wish the god of this place \/ would put me in its mouth \/ until I dissolve, until \/ the field doesn\u2019t end \/ and I am broken down \/ like a rifle, \/ swabbed clean.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grazing after Matt Rasmussen I know you didn\u2019t choose this place to die \/ you chose another \/ but I still imagine the shoulder of your favorite chair \/ spattered with red. \/ I cannot help \/ each time I curl my neck onto the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90897","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\/90897","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\/3778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90914,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90897\/revisions\/90914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}