{"id":13507,"date":"2020-05-06T21:04:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T01:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=13507"},"modified":"2021-01-09T05:46:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T10:46:56","slug":"the-poetry-snapshot-another-corner-of-the-bedroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2020\/05\/06\/the-poetry-snapshot-another-corner-of-the-bedroom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Snapshot: Another Corner of the Bedroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I walk into my bedroom tonight.<br \/>\nLike second nature after a long, busy day,<br \/>\nI get up to turn off the light<br \/>\nand scroll my time and confidence away.<\/p>\n<p>But the fan on the ceiling distracts me.<br \/>\nThe blades create a patterned shadow on the walls<br \/>\nand the breeze touches my face lightly.<br \/>\nHave I not felt this before?<\/p>\n<p>And then I am bothered by the crooked lamp on the table.<br \/>\nA soft buzz emanates from the fluorescent static<br \/>\nand it stands there mocking me with its instability.<br \/>\nHave I not seen this before?<\/p>\n<p>Finally my eyes wander over to a marathon medal.<br \/>\nThe shiny bronze engraving hangs on a white and blue ribbon<br \/>\nand makes a systematic click every so often.<br \/>\nHave I not heard this before?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13508\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 388px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-13508\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1-point-perspective-drawing-room-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1-point-perspective-drawing-room-8.jpg 652w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1-point-perspective-drawing-room-8-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><em>\u00a0Source: One Point Perspective Drawings<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I get up to turn off the light,<br \/>\nLike second nature, I assume.<br \/>\nBut as I sit on the floor<br \/>\nin another corner of the room,<br \/>\nI remember this is not home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I walk into my bedroom tonight. Like second nature after a long, busy day, I get up to turn off the light and scroll my time and confidence away. But the fan on the ceiling distracts me. The blades create a patterned shadow on the walls and the breeze touches my face lightly. Have I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2205,"featured_media":13473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1520,15,1372],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13507"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15086,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13507\/revisions\/15086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}