{"id":99568,"date":"2021-06-27T00:50:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T04:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=99568"},"modified":"2021-07-23T00:29:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T04:29:42","slug":"decomposing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/decomposing\/","title":{"rendered":"Decomposing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In autumn<br \/>\nwhen leaves blanket<br \/>\nmy yard<br \/>\nI hope<br \/>\nunlike most others<br \/>\nfor rain<br \/>\nbefore I rake<\/p>\n<p>The added<br \/>\nmess of raking<br \/>\nwet leaves is much<br \/>\npreferred<br \/>\nfor it hastens their<br \/>\ndecay and<br \/>\nolfactory air<\/p>\n<p>Intoxicating<\/p>\n<p>I inhale my youth<br \/>\nforest floor of<br \/>\nHanson\u2019s woods<br \/>\nwhere she<br \/>\nand I would<\/p>\n<p>walk and<br \/>\nwhere we once sat<br \/>\non a log<br \/>\nsurrounded by dead<br \/>\nleaves and<br \/>\ntheir<br \/>\nmoldering aroma<\/p>\n<p>punctuating<br \/>\neverything that was<br \/>\nof me and<br \/>\nher smile has faded<br \/>\nbut scents of<br \/>\nthe earth<br \/>\nthat forest<\/p>\n<p>remind me<br \/>\nof a time when all<br \/>\nwas right, and so<br \/>\nwas she and<br \/>\nso were we and<\/p>\n<p>now the<br \/>\nsmell of decay<br \/>\nkeeps<br \/>\nher alive<\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2021<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/em><strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In autumn when leaves blanket my yard I hope unlike most others for rain before I rake The added mess of raking wet leaves is much preferred for it hastens their decay and olfactory air Intoxicating I inhale my youth forest floor of Hanson\u2019s woods&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[4650,4646,2112,17,2484,4211,4651,2070],"class_list":["post-99568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2021prompt16","tag-2021hour16","tag-looking-back","tag-nature","tag-reminisce","tag-the-woods","tag-young-love","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99568","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99568"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104567,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99568\/revisions\/104567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}