{"id":9519,"date":"2015-06-13T15:52:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T19:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=9519"},"modified":"2015-06-13T15:52:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T19:52:37","slug":"poem-6-the-weeks-conspire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/poem-6-the-weeks-conspire\/","title":{"rendered":"poem #6   the weeks conspire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate it when the month is mad at me<br \/>\nFurious February, Antagonistic April<br \/>\nMonths when days spiral into darkness<br \/>\neven before dusk<br \/>\nwhen the pileup of wreckage serves<br \/>\nonly to hide the carnage of failure<br \/>\nof every time I tried &amp; tried again<br \/>\nand fell over the cliff<br \/>\ninto desperation<br \/>\nIt might be August<br \/>\nheat shimmering<br \/>\nand I flinch from the icy barb<br \/>\nof knowing I\u2019m inadequate<br \/>\nto anything &amp; everything<br \/>\nthis month will bring<br \/>\nIts four weeks huddle<br \/>\nlay plans to tangle me in snarls<br \/>\nof barbed wire that once were words<br \/>\nmy beloved offered me in anger<br \/>\nThey draw maps of the places in my own<br \/>\ndark centre that are vulnerable<br \/>\nto light places that need secrecy<br \/>\nto survive<br \/>\nThe 30 days of June conspire<br \/>\nwhisper to the ruins of my May<br \/>\nthat now will be no better<br \/>\nAnd I have done nothing<br \/>\nnothing to ignite this retribution<br \/>\nnothing to deserve this streak<br \/>\nof anger<br \/>\nI have done nothing at all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate it when the month is mad at me Furious February, Antagonistic April Months when days spiral into darkness even before dusk when the pileup of wreckage serves only to hide the carnage of failure of every time I tried &amp; tried again and&#8230;<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-9519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9519","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=9519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9522,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9519\/revisions\/9522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}