{"id":4025,"date":"2021-09-29T08:18:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T12:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=4025"},"modified":"2021-09-29T08:18:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T12:18:17","slug":"exile-anticipation-and-blasphemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/29\/exile-anticipation-and-blasphemy\/","title":{"rendered":"exile, anticipation, and blasphemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>scars and a hidden chance<br \/>\nthese conversations reveal<br \/>\nabsurd cycles<br \/>\nand our hopeful roses<br \/>\nrefuse to bloom<br \/>\nas hard men<br \/>\nsettle for woodpecker nights<br \/>\ndreams are forbidden<br \/>\nand cast into<br \/>\nskinny shadows<br \/>\nas fate surrenders<br \/>\nto another symphony<br \/>\nof awkward consequence<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s a dangerous ballet<br \/>\nfilled with dull knives<br \/>\nincomplete sentences<br \/>\nand nervous impulses<br \/>\nlittered with stray excuses<br \/>\nthe gods are absent and random<br \/>\nin their delicate traditions<br \/>\nand i refuse to admit<br \/>\nthat summer is over<br \/>\nas my labored machine breaths<br \/>\nsubmit to another evening<br \/>\nof furious and cartoonish<br \/>\ndistraction<\/p>\n<p>the garden is almost empty<br \/>\nbut i&#8217;ll always remember the rain<br \/>\nand if i listen closely<br \/>\ni can still hear the truth<br \/>\nof focused voodoo rhythms<br \/>\nluxurious and wandering<br \/>\nunder a watchful moon<br \/>\nas we stumble through glorious narrations<br \/>\npale and screaming<br \/>\nsearching for a reflection<br \/>\nof villainy or redemption<br \/>\nconceiving illicit adventures<br \/>\nthat are negotiated<br \/>\nin this dehumanized<br \/>\nand nefarious night<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/553-exile-anticipation-and-blasphemy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4032\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/553-exile-anticipation-and-blasphemy-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"553-exile-anticipation-and-blasphemy\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/553-exile-anticipation-and-blasphemy-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/553-exile-anticipation-and-blasphemy-145x200.jpg 145w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/553-exile-anticipation-and-blasphemy.jpg 558w\" 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-4025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025","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=4025"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4033,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions\/4033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}