{"id":91328,"date":"2021-06-26T13:23:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91328"},"modified":"2021-06-26T13:23:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:23:46","slug":"hour-5-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-5-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 5, Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><b>Hands<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They open the casket<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and I ask if I can hold your hand<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a callused time capsule\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of every choice you\u2019ve ever made,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">particles clinging from the skin you last caressed,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hairs on the back moving under the fans &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the only part of you that is.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I can\u2019t,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hold your hand that is,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">so I am left to ponder your life line.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">iI I would have known this date\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">if I knew to read the crevice of your palm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hands &nbsp; They open the casket and I ask if I can hold your hand a callused time capsule\u00a0 of every choice you\u2019ve ever made, particles clinging from the skin you last caressed,\u00a0 hairs on the back moving under the fans &#8211; the only part&#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-91328","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\/91328","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=91328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91335,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91328\/revisions\/91335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}