{"id":15774,"date":"2021-02-24T09:57:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T14:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=15774"},"modified":"2021-03-02T22:34:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T03:34:37","slug":"the-poetry-snapshot-dimly-lit-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2021\/02\/24\/the-poetry-snapshot-dimly-lit-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Snapshot: Dimly Lit Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A night of unsustainable chivalry<br \/>\nand questionable intimacy.<br \/>\nIn this dimly lit room,<br \/>\nyou feel like a rehearsed symphony.<\/p>\n<p>Your words age like wine<br \/>\nand carry me like champagne\u2014<br \/>\nbut I&#8217;m nine months sober.<br \/>\nSo I put on a smile and try to explain<br \/>\nan elegantly crafted love story.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not a lie, just glorified,<br \/>\nbecause tonight, perfection is mandatory.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15767\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 273px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-15767\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dimly-lit-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dimly-lit-1.jpg 848w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dimly-lit-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dimly-lit-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><em>Image by Duane Street<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sixty minutes of seated salience;<br \/>\nI search for your expressions.<br \/>\nYour tiny obsessions.<br \/>\nYour emotional dispossessions.<br \/>\nThen the sound of your racing heart<br \/>\ngrazes my skin like cashmere,<br \/>\nsuddenly, I want to stay right here.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, what a rare luxury!<br \/>\nI can wear my vulnerability<br \/>\nlike pearls around my neck.<br \/>\nI do not have to tip toe,<br \/>\nyou should know I&#8217;m a wreck.<br \/>\nFinally able to breathe,<br \/>\nin this dimly lit room,<br \/>\nI see you in full bloom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A night of unsustainable chivalry and questionable intimacy. In this dimly lit room, you feel like a rehearsed symphony. Your words age like wine and carry me like champagne\u2014 but I&#8217;m nine months sober. So I put on a smile and try to explain an elegantly crafted love story. It&#8217;s not a lie, just glorified, [&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\/15774"}],"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=15774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15777,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15774\/revisions\/15777"}],"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=15774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}