{"id":16873,"date":"2021-04-14T15:16:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T19:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=16873"},"modified":"2021-04-14T15:16:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T19:16:32","slug":"the-poetry-snapshot-stoic-luxury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2021\/04\/14\/the-poetry-snapshot-stoic-luxury\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Snapshot: Stoic Luxury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A time of milk and honey, where no one <em>talks<\/em> about money\u2014<br \/>\nchampagne conversations and dicty dialogues\u2014<br \/>\nin a town of copied and pasted happy faces,<br \/>\nthey find a target for their jealous disgraces.<br \/>\nA woman moves in wearing her silk scarf and stoicism,<br \/>\neyes reflecting her wisdom like a prism.<\/p>\n<p>Without warrant, their words would spread in torrent,<br \/>\nalways giving their looking-glass logic on her loneliness.<br \/>\nHer diamond-pierced ears would hear ear-piercing lies,<br \/>\nbut one-by-one she would collect them and polish them,<br \/>\nweave them together into a magnificent chandelier<br \/>\nthat she hung from her mansion so proudly,<br \/>\nhosting galas without invites and music playing loudly.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16876\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 305px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-16876\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_3136-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_3136-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_3136-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_3136-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_3136.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Boulder, Colorado<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Red rosy lips softly spell out her secrets,<br \/>\nonce touched with passion, but now with regret.<br \/>\nShe grew up hiding her pain in pressed-powder,<br \/>\nthen created success when no one allowed her.<br \/>\nThe day she wore hardship like high heels,<br \/>\ntime slowed down until every moment was dusk.<\/p>\n<p>She pours charisma into her glass hereafter<br \/>\nand walks with the scent of vineyards in her laughter.<br \/>\nThe only time where nostalgia lies in the future.<\/p>\n<p>She was raised to romanticize every view\u2014<br \/>\nrolling hills nearby would bid her adieu<br \/>\nand the sky would blush at her everlasting glow<br \/>\nonly one set of footprints walks along this chateau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A time of milk and honey, where no one talks about money\u2014 champagne conversations and dicty dialogues\u2014 in a town of copied and pasted happy faces, they find a target for their jealous disgraces. A woman moves in wearing her silk scarf and stoicism, eyes reflecting her wisdom like a prism. Without warrant, their words [&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\/16873"}],"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=16873"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16881,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16873\/revisions\/16881"}],"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=16873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}