{"id":97140,"date":"2021-06-26T20:24:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=97140"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:24:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:24:22","slug":"blue-like-the-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/blue-like-the-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"blue like the centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/alexander-ant-cHJkBY15e9Q-unsplash-scaled.jpg\" width=\"204\" height=\"306\" \/><\/p>\n<p>if i could live in these veins,<\/p>\n<p>holding this being in the palm of my hand<\/p>\n<p>held over my heart in longing to breathe you back into life<\/p>\n<p>in the sun in the field under the sky<\/p>\n<p>blue like the cleansing of my want<\/p>\n<p>to live in the veins of this being<\/p>\n<p>connected to my centre and their centre<\/p>\n<p>linked umbilicus to umbilicus<\/p>\n<p>mother and child in the cradle of the sky<\/p>\n<p>littered with all those ancestors who placed me<\/p>\n<p>in the way of this being<\/p>\n<p>so I may live in these veins of blue.<\/p>\n<p>(c) r. l. elke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>if i could live in these veins, holding this being in the palm of my hand held over my heart in longing to breathe you back into life in the sun in the field under the sky blue like the cleansing of my want to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97140","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97224,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97140\/revisions\/97224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}