{"id":15008,"date":"2020-12-25T10:44:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T15:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=15008"},"modified":"2021-01-09T05:12:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T10:12:54","slug":"the-poetry-snapshot-parallel-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2020\/12\/25\/the-poetry-snapshot-parallel-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Snapshot: Parallel Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15009\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 306px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-15009\" style=\"-webkit-user-drag: none; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: -1ex;\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_7222-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"395\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">New York City, New York<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I sat with the uncertainty of landing to a reality<br \/>\nI\u2019d never seen with my own eyes.<br \/>\nI kept adjusting my economy seat.<br \/>\nI sit with the anxiety of finally returning,<br \/>\nafter trying so hard to get back on my feet.<\/p>\n<p>I was once eager to arrive<br \/>\nand dissolve my wistfulness with an embrace.<br \/>\nNow I\u2019m nervous to see the empty space,<br \/>\nonly filled with memories I still can\u2019t face.<\/p>\n<p>Back then I wanted the minutes to go by faster.<br \/>\nFolding time to reduce distance and see you again.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I can wait.<\/p>\n<p>I can be slow to get where I\u2019m going<br \/>\nand make the destination farther away.<\/p>\n<p>I am flying the same journey again,<br \/>\nbut on parallel lines.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t seem to balance this cheerful anticipation<br \/>\nwith my fear of noticing the signs;<br \/>\nthat times are different and things have grown<br \/>\nin ways I\u2019m not familiar.<br \/>\nBut perhaps returning to change is what I need<br \/>\nto finally get some closure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sat with the uncertainty of landing to a reality I\u2019d never seen with my own eyes. I kept adjusting my economy seat. I sit with the anxiety of finally returning, after trying so hard to get back on my feet. I was once eager to arrive and dissolve my wistfulness with an embrace. Now [&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\/15008"}],"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=15008"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15057,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15008\/revisions\/15057"}],"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=15008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}