The years I spent in the desert of my mind,
\nin the concrete bleakness of the northwest end of my city
\nyou spent in the pink and yellow and dust
\na training base just north of Joshua tree
\nWhere we went to celebrate me turning thirty
\nThe years I spent singing and learning
\nYou spent playing music and barking orders
\nSargeant in the marine corps band
\nWhen we met you had had a few years to grow out your crew cut hair
\nAnd mine was growing out from a pixie
\nmy hairdresser had cut inch by inch from halfway down my back
\n\u201cAre you sure?\u201d She asked and asked
\nA few more years \u2019til we chose not to kiss in northern Europe
\nto protect the secular and safe camaraderie we shared
\nBut I decided our rule did not apply to me
\nKissed you on an top of an old lookout tower
\n\u201cA lifelong friendship is a marriage\u201d my auntie said in the summer heat
\nWhen I flew back to Canada
\nThen you drove from the east coast of your country
\nAnd the night was cold
\nSo I draped a blanket around us
\nAnd our love was a truth I finally told. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The years I spent in the desert of my mind, in the concrete bleakness of the northwest end of my city you spent in the pink and yellow and dust a training base just north of Joshua tree Where we went to celebrate me turning…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":917,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96683","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\/917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96688,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96683\/revisions\/96688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}