{"id":94494,"date":"2021-06-26T17:14:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=94494"},"modified":"2021-06-26T17:14:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:14:27","slug":"poem-9-another-breath-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/poem-9-another-breath-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 9: Another Breath Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Another Breath Poem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>First breath takes in spring winds blowing down slopes<\/p>\n<p>of the Rockies over lilies of the valley and lilacs to new me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My first mingled breath with a brown-haired boy named Darrel<\/p>\n<p>as we stood nervous in a shack with a Black Widow near.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Summer breath mingled with wild clover and mustard,<\/p>\n<p>freshly mowed hay, dank aromas of rich earth in the air.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>New breath of yucca blossoms tinged with hot sands<\/p>\n<p>from winds blowing across a desert I did not yet love.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Later, when I breathed in the cloven leaves of creosote<\/p>\n<p>after a rain, my lungs grow fingers to stroke the air\u2019s hair.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>New breath now mingles grass and maple leaves and pine<\/p>\n<p>that becomes a pool I want lie in, suspended, and gaze at the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Breath Poem &nbsp; First breath takes in spring winds blowing down slopes of the Rockies over lilies of the valley and lilacs to new me. &nbsp; My first mingled breath with a brown-haired boy named Darrel as we stood nervous in a shack with&#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-94494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94494","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=94494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94505,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94494\/revisions\/94505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}