{"id":2563,"date":"2019-09-04T10:42:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T14:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2019-09-04T10:42:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T14:42:43","slug":"searching-for-serpents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/04\/searching-for-serpents\/","title":{"rendered":"searching for serpents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>come the cool collected calculations<br \/>\nof this soft calendar curfew<br \/>\nsearching for serpents and quiet poems<br \/>\nin the blue ruin dayspring<br \/>\nthe mood is right<br \/>\nas the wind carries a vagrant vibe<br \/>\nto mesh with this holy mess<br \/>\nand beautiful disasters<br \/>\nlinger just around the corner<br \/>\nas the ghost of yesterday smiles<\/p>\n<p>but somehow<br \/>\ni can&#8217;t write this morning<br \/>\nelevated and eclipsed<br \/>\non the fire side of secular souls<br \/>\ni&#8217;m just not wet and alive<\/p>\n<p>free fall<br \/>\nfeel the fall<br \/>\ncoming with<br \/>\nexpected half glories<br \/>\nas the walls of wednesday<br \/>\nare dismantled by tactile telemetry<br \/>\nand a translucent rebellion of the old gods<\/p>\n<p>searching deficient churches<br \/>\nhollow with the sounds of substance<br \/>\neverything is poetry<br \/>\nbut only to those<br \/>\nwith wild ears<\/p>\n<p>how to finish<br \/>\nwhen there is no initiation<br \/>\nthe storm is over, yet<br \/>\nthe goddess of summer<br \/>\nhas one last trick<br \/>\nup her silky sleeve<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/363-searching-for-serpents.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2569\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/363-searching-for-serpents-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"363-searching-for-serpents\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/363-searching-for-serpents-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/363-searching-for-serpents-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/363-searching-for-serpents.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/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-2563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563","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=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2570,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}