{"id":13814,"date":"2020-09-29T10:51:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T14:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=13814"},"modified":"2021-01-09T05:40:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T10:40:09","slug":"the-poetry-snapshot-an-imperfect-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2020\/09\/29\/the-poetry-snapshot-an-imperfect-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Snapshot: An Imperfect Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You want to share stories and emotions,<br \/>\nbut you&#8217;re afraid to be open.<br \/>\nSo you pause and look out at the ocean,<br \/>\nand count the silences between the waves.<br \/>\nYou sit quietly, just listening.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13815\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 348px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-13815\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0237-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0237-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0237-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0237-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0237.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><em>Lake Huron, Michigan<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So much history runs through my mind,<br \/>\nand I cannot collect any words to say.<br \/>\nThese pulses of anxiety feel\u00a0unrefined,<br \/>\nbut I still want to stay by your side.<br \/>\nSo I sit quietly, just listening.<\/p>\n<p>Conflicted with what we want,<br \/>\nwe finally reach an impasse.<br \/>\nWe pretend to stay nonchalant,<br \/>\nwith ebbs and flows of imperfect moments.<br \/>\nWe sit quietly, just listening.<\/p>\n<p>Listening for all the unsaid words.<br \/>\nListening for all the stifled laughter.<br \/>\nListening to every wave crash on land.<br \/>\nListening to everyone else around us.<\/p>\n<p>Just not listening to each other.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You want to share stories and emotions, but you&#8217;re afraid to be open. So you pause and look out at the ocean, and count the silences between the waves. You sit quietly, just listening. So much history runs through my mind, and I cannot collect any words to say. These pulses of anxiety feel\u00a0unrefined, but [&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":[34,15,1372],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814"}],"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=13814"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15082,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814\/revisions\/15082"}],"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=13814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}