{"id":18831,"date":"2022-01-26T22:11:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T03:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=18831"},"modified":"2022-01-26T22:11:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T03:11:46","slug":"the-poetry-snapshot-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2022\/01\/26\/the-poetry-snapshot-to-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Snapshot: To The Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 271px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_5728-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"348\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Cass Lake, MI (find the tiny moon!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I love you to the moon and\u2026<br \/>\nAnd what?<br \/>\nAnd back to this town?<br \/>\nWhere I feel the gravity of their eyes on me?<br \/>\nDepravity of the lies I hear?<br \/>\nNo.<br \/>\nNot back.<br \/>\nI do not want to come back.<br \/>\nSo what if we just stayed on the moon?<\/p>\n<dl id=\"attachment_18832\">\n<dt><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>Without any context,<br \/>\nOr caring what comes next,<br \/>\nWithout fear of any conflict,<br \/>\nOr anyone feeling vexed.<\/p>\n<p>Every smiling moment,<br \/>\nHas been shared under the moon.<\/p>\n<p>In the bliss of torrential downpours and concert encores.<br \/>\nDeep breaths under twinkling fairy lights and dimly lit starry nights.<\/p>\n<p>But on Earth the moon sets at dawn.<br \/>\nAnd uncertainties are redrawn<br \/>\nIn bright colors for everyone to see.<\/p>\n<p>On the moon,<br \/>\nHowever,<br \/>\nWe could last forever.<br \/>\nStars help make amends,<br \/>\nand there would be no critics.<br \/>\nLike a song that never ends,<br \/>\nWe could live between the lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love you to the moon and\u2026 And what? And back to this town? Where I feel the gravity of their eyes on me? Depravity of the lies I hear? No. Not back. I do not want to come back. So what if we just stayed on the moon? Without any context, Or caring what [&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\/18831"}],"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=18831"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18838,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18831\/revisions\/18838"}],"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=18831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}