{"id":2022,"date":"2018-11-29T07:23:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T12:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2018-11-29T07:23:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T12:23:30","slug":"the-denial-of-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/29\/the-denial-of-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"the denial of winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>quiet and white<br \/>\nnot particularly bright<br \/>\nas dawn threatens to break the twilight<\/p>\n<p>at this hour the only sounds are<br \/>\ndistant winds, melting icicles,<br \/>\nand cats<br \/>\nknocking keys off the table<\/p>\n<p>nervous travelers are pursued by<br \/>\ndiesel beasts, weighted<br \/>\nwith forward momentum<\/p>\n<p>lazy salesmen dream of better days<br \/>\nas forgotten telephones<br \/>\nrefuse to ring<br \/>\nand the outside world fades into<br \/>\nseasonal obscurity<\/p>\n<p>lazily, we move down the hall<br \/>\nas the furnace belches it\u2019s oily routine<br \/>\nthe cold calls to fire<\/p>\n<p>i was denied once again<br \/>\nlike a comic, cosmic anti-hero<br \/>\ntoo much white<br \/>\ni need a little black<br \/>\nso, i\u2019ll think i\u2019ll just sit here<br \/>\nin my pajamas, smoking a cigarette,<br \/>\nwith this immortal kitten<br \/>\nresting my lap<br \/>\ntyping unimportant words<br \/>\nas i wait for signs of life<\/p>\n<p>if only everyday<br \/>\ncould be this simple<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/306-the-denial-of-winter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2026\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/306-the-denial-of-winter-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"306-the-denial-of-winter\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/306-the-denial-of-winter-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/306-the-denial-of-winter-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/306-the-denial-of-winter.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2027,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}