{"id":19010,"date":"2022-03-27T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=19010"},"modified":"2022-03-27T22:00:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T02:00:53","slug":"evolving-emotions-bliss-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2022\/03\/27\/evolving-emotions-bliss-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolving Emotions: Bliss in the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Setting in the west<\/p>\n<p>Purple and blue hues<\/p>\n<p>Over the plains of grass<\/p>\n<p>A peace fills the air<\/p>\n<p>Dotted with stars<\/p>\n<p>My friend sits in the sky<\/p>\n<p>Pronounced against the black<\/p>\n<p>We are alone together.<\/p>\n<p>My neck cranes<\/p>\n<p>To witness his light<\/p>\n<p>Grazing my face<\/p>\n<p>I lay in the grass<\/p>\n<p>Looking out<\/p>\n<p>Darkness surrounds me<\/p>\n<p>Concealing my existence<\/p>\n<p>Only acknowledged by my friend in the sky<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A profound comfort washes<\/p>\n<p>Across my skin.<\/p>\n<p>The softness of the breeze<\/p>\n<p>The chill of the night<\/p>\n<p>The peace in this place.<\/p>\n<p>No judgement<\/p>\n<p>No eyes upon my flesh<\/p>\n<p>Probing my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Just me on the Earth<\/p>\n<p>And my friend in the sky<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How blissful is anonymity<\/p>\n<p>The release of the pressure to conform<\/p>\n<p>The anxiety of inadequacy<\/p>\n<p>The worries for the future<\/p>\n<p>And the loathing of the past.<\/p>\n<p>My friend steadies me<\/p>\n<p>I shine with him<\/p>\n<p>Our bliss in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19014\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20210829_003412374_iOS-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting in the west Purple and blue hues Over the plains of grass A peace fills the air Dotted with stars My friend sits in the sky Pronounced against the black We are alone together. My neck cranes To witness his light Grazing my face I lay in the grass Looking out Darkness surrounds me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2246,"featured_media":18426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1774,1520,34,281,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19010"}],"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=19010"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19758,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19010\/revisions\/19758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}