{"id":91080,"date":"2021-06-26T13:07:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91080"},"modified":"2021-06-26T14:01:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:01:05","slug":"hour-4-prompt-1-off-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-4-prompt-1-off-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 4, Prompt 1: Off-book"},"content":{"rendered":"

*First line is taken from the last line of James Baldwin\u2019s <\/span>Tell Me How Long the Train\u2019s Been Gone<\/span> (1968)<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And so found myself<\/span><\/p>\n

presently,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

standing in the wings again,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

waiting for my cue.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rocking on my heels<\/span><\/p>\n

in anticipation,<\/span><\/p>\n

I reach to run my lines<\/span><\/p>\n

and find a blank expanse where\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

pages and pages of narrative<\/span><\/p>\n

once sprawled across my memory<\/span><\/p>\n

flanked by scene descriptions\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And parentheticals<\/span><\/p>\n

in 12pt Times.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am making it up<\/span><\/p>\n

as I go.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

However,<\/span><\/p>\n

I can recall you.<\/span><\/p>\n

All of you–<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Unscripted<\/span><\/p>\n

reveling in divine ferocity<\/span><\/p>\n

tongues stropped and gleaming<\/span><\/p>\n

in an extravaganza of impeccable style<\/span><\/p>\n

flaunting the kind of walk<\/span><\/p>\n

that could eviscerate me<\/span><\/p>\n

And burn Paris to the ground–<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

as my inciting incident.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

*First line is taken from the last line of James Baldwin\u2019s Tell Me How Long the Train\u2019s Been Gone (1968)   And so found myself presently,\u00a0 standing in the wings again,\u00a0 waiting for my cue. Rocking on my heels in anticipation, I reach to run…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91080","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\/1292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91094,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91080\/revisions\/91094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}