{"id":93385,"date":"2021-06-26T15:56:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=93385"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:56:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:56:04","slug":"seeing-god-through-a-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/seeing-god-through-a-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing God through a Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"
Seeing God through a Brother<\/div>\n
Everyone has a name for hunger in his mother’s tongue.<\/div>\n
My Asian friend asked me in a chat what it’s called.<\/div>\n
I typed ‘ebi.’ He sent a voice note and distorted<\/div>\n
the pronunciation to mean vomit.<\/div>\n
It was normal for the belly to reject a meal. Not anymore.<\/div>\n
The once filled library in my home town cries of hunger.<\/div>\n
I realized my stomach’s mouth is becoming<\/div>\n
wide and I give it to a seamstress to stitch it<\/div>\n
into the pocket size of a beggar.<\/div>\n
Every expression could be art but not a poem.<\/div>\n
In a poem, not all expressions are poetic.<\/div>\n
It is poetic to say I begged a bird for a grain<\/div>\n
and staked my future, not birthright.<\/div>\n
What is birthright if the holder’s body no longer holds air?<\/div>\n
I understand when people do not speak of empty stomachs<\/div>\n
because it was written: man must live not by food alone.<\/div>\n
Today, must be fed to see beyond.<\/div>\n
It is normal these days to look at a brother<\/div>\n
and see a god_who is also a provider.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seeing God through a Brother Everyone has a name for hunger in his mother’s tongue. My Asian friend asked me in a chat what it’s called. I typed ‘ebi.’ He sent a voice note and distorted the pronunciation to mean vomit. It was normal for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93385","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\/1398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104405,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93385\/revisions\/104405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}