{"id":17713,"date":"2021-11-13T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=17713"},"modified":"2021-11-04T08:11:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T12:11:28","slug":"awaiting-the-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2021\/11\/13\/awaiting-the-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolving Emotions: Awaiting the Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lingering anticipation<\/p>\n<p>Tenses your muscles<\/p>\n<p>The very fibers of your being<\/p>\n<p>Alert<\/p>\n<p>Waiting<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your throat constricts<\/p>\n<p>A thump in your chest moves you<\/p>\n<p>Something screams inside your skull<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the thunderous booms<\/p>\n<p>That will invade your ears<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lingering<\/p>\n<p>Pleading<\/p>\n<p>Everything is still.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The drums erupt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pummeling the shingles<\/p>\n<p>The wind howls in grief<\/p>\n<p>At the loss of it all<\/p>\n<p>Everything is washed away<\/p>\n<p>A barren, hard wasteland<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A rain of tears mourns for you<\/p>\n<p>What once was hard, softens<\/p>\n<p>Tremors pulse<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After a short while<\/p>\n<p>And a long eternity<\/p>\n<p>It ceases.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The anticipation begins once more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17716\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210916_001717684_iOS-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210916_001717684_iOS-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210916_001717684_iOS-768x1022.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210916_001717684_iOS-770x1024.jpg 770w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210916_001717684_iOS.jpg 962w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lingering anticipation Tenses your muscles The very fibers of your being Alert Waiting &nbsp; Your throat constricts A thump in your chest moves you Something screams inside your skull &nbsp; For the thunderous booms That will invade your ears &nbsp; Lingering Pleading Everything is still. &nbsp; The drums erupt. &nbsp; Pummeling the shingles The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2246,"featured_media":17715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1765],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17713"}],"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\/2246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17713"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17786,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17713\/revisions\/17786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}