{"id":15524,"date":"2021-02-17T10:29:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T15:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=15524"},"modified":"2021-02-24T05:05:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T10:05:04","slug":"the-poetry-snapshot-here-and-gone-like-a-breeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2021\/02\/17\/the-poetry-snapshot-here-and-gone-like-a-breeze\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Snapshot: Here and Gone like a Breeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15542\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 250px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-15542\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_1279-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_1279-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_1279-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_1279-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><em>Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One single moment,<br \/>\nso sweet as sugar,<br \/>\nonly to leave behind a cavity that lasts forever.<br \/>\nHow can someone touch you so lightly,<br \/>\nthat you question the embrace,<br \/>\nbut then find a scar on your body?<\/p>\n<p>Here and gone like the wind,<br \/>\nbut softer and silently,<br \/>\nlike a breeze.<\/p>\n<p>I feared her free-spirit,<br \/>\nbut found asylum in her affection.<br \/>\nShe filled me with rage and so much wonder,<br \/>\nbut when she was gone, I had this everlasting hunger.<\/p>\n<p>Only three raindrops hit my skin before she got bored.<br \/>\nWanting more, but locked at her core,<br \/>\nshe did not mind leaving; that&#8217;s all she was good for.<br \/>\nFor summoning up a storm and then &#8216;running away&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Never afraid but always awake,<br \/>\nbecause dreams never lie and they testify<br \/>\nagainst everything we try to hide.<\/p>\n<p>Green grass in the field mocks my jealously,<br \/>\nbut I thought it was love?<br \/>\nI called it affection,<br \/>\nbut just wanted attention.<\/p>\n<p>When she first came here,<br \/>\nthe field was frozen.<br \/>\nThen it melted tears as she disappeared.<br \/>\nHow was <em>she<\/em> chosen?<br \/>\nFreshly plucked out of the field,<br \/>\nthe star Rose in my eye.<br \/>\nBut of course I had to say goodbye,<br \/>\neventually flowers decay.<br \/>\nPerhaps tomorrow the sky won&#8217;t be so gray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One single moment, so sweet as sugar, only to leave behind a cavity that lasts forever. How can someone touch you so lightly, that you question the embrace, but then find a scar on your body? Here and gone like the wind, but softer and silently, like a breeze. I feared her free-spirit, but found [&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\/15524"}],"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=15524"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15781,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15524\/revisions\/15781"}],"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=15524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}