Real<\/p>\n
They all said they were real. Real They all said they were real. I had \u2013 and have \u2013 no idea what that means. Is it hunger? Thirst? Feeling the wind catching in your throat? How do you know real when (if?) you find it? What do you do to attain…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4101,1411,1173,4415,4416],"class_list":["post-93717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2021poetrymarathon","tag-birds","tag-half-marathon","tag-real","tag-wren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93717","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93740,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93717\/revisions\/93740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI had \u2013 and have \u2013 no idea
\nwhat that means.
\nIs it hunger? Thirst? Feeling
\nthe wind catching in your throat?
\nHow do you know real<\/em>
\nwhen (if?) you find it?
\nWhat do you do to attain it?
\nDo I want to?
\nIs it (as a horse once told me)
\nabout love? About suffering?
\nIs it about giving? Knowing
\nwho exactly you are?
\nI know no more now
\nthan then, when I first heard
\nits siren call: real real real<\/em>
\nI am older \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0worn and torn.
\nI have danced with death
\nridden bareback on loss
\nheld love in widespread fingers
\nand watched it sift between.
\nReal? As a horse in a meadow
\na soldier in a war \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0a wren
\ncarved by hand from ancient wood.
\nReal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"