{"id":15982,"date":"2021-03-03T09:34:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T14:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=15982"},"modified":"2023-03-28T14:09:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T18:09:11","slug":"the-poetry-snapshot-leave-me-at-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2021\/03\/03\/the-poetry-snapshot-leave-me-at-the-library\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Snapshot: Leave me at the Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It terrifies me to think<br \/>\nI can get so close,<br \/>\nfinally be in sync,<br \/>\nhave a moment of repose&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Only to have you become a stranger again.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15991\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 295px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-15991\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_8006-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_8006-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_8006-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_8006-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><em>Nashville, TN<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So please leave me at the library;<br \/>\nan unchecked book.<br \/>\nI can make myself invisible,<br \/>\nuntil I&#8217;m something you overlook.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been ages since I&#8217;ve let someone<br \/>\nfully read through my pages.<br \/>\nAn author, or perhaps my own adversary,<br \/>\nfor assuming I will always be temporary.<br \/>\nI write myself out of existence;<br \/>\nbefore there is doubt, there is distance.<br \/>\nUntil I&#8217;ve swam so far out into the sea,<br \/>\nnot even the waves can quite reach me.<\/p>\n<p>My spine is sewn by the emotions<br \/>\nthat couldn&#8217;t be noted.<br \/>\nEach word is an ocean,<br \/>\nbut I&#8217;ve never floated.<br \/>\nSo I drown myself into my own story,<br \/>\nI grasp for air, but now I feel lonely.<\/p>\n<p>Tongue-stained with insecurities,<br \/>\nI have chapters of excuses just to avoid<br \/>\na potential hurt I&#8217;ve always known.<br \/>\nUntil one day, I&#8217;m on my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It terrifies me to think I can get so close, finally be in sync, have a moment of repose&#8230; Only to have you become a stranger again. So please leave me at the library; an unchecked book. I can make myself invisible, until I&#8217;m something you overlook. It&#8217;s been ages since I&#8217;ve let someone fully [&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":[34,15,1751,1372],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982"}],"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=15982"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22910,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982\/revisions\/22910"}],"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=15982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}