{"id":92985,"date":"2021-06-26T15:27:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=92985"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:28:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:28:30","slug":"poem-7-ruminations-on-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/poem-7-ruminations-on-breath\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 7: Ruminations on Breath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ruminations on Breath<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Breath is a shoe lined with moleskin<\/p>\n<p>holding my foot in its soft hand.<\/p>\n<p>Breath carries liquid crystals to my blood<\/p>\n<p>filling my head with full spectrum light.<\/p>\n<p>Breath wants to be a fighting beta from the pet store<\/p>\n<p>with more colors than any one eye can contain.<\/p>\n<p>Breath dreams of a cabin in the woods filled with the<\/p>\n<p>casings of pine smoke and musty old cots.<\/p>\n<p>Breath wants to be held like a baby cocooned<\/p>\n<p>in flannel blankets and carried through the snow.<\/p>\n<p>Breath thirsts for a muddled mojito<\/p>\n<p>to wear with pink fuzzy house slippers.<\/p>\n<p>Breath grows into a sequined jazz singer<\/p>\n<p>in a smoky nightclub who wants all eyes on her.<\/p>\n<p>Breath has a packed suitcase by the front door<\/p>\n<p>ready to blow out of here first chance she gets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruminations on Breath &nbsp; Breath is a shoe lined with moleskin holding my foot in its soft hand. Breath carries liquid crystals to my blood filling my head with full spectrum light. Breath wants to be a fighting beta from the pet store with more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3235,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92985","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\/3235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93041,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92985\/revisions\/93041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}