{"id":20476,"date":"2023-04-16T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=20476"},"modified":"2023-04-16T08:11:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T12:11:11","slug":"evolving-emotions-trust-short-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2023\/04\/16\/evolving-emotions-trust-short-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolving Emotions: Trust- Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Secret<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You said my secret<\/p>\n<p>was safe<\/p>\n<p>in your locked box<\/p>\n<p>made of rib bones<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You said you bundled it up<\/p>\n<p>in a cream-colored cloth<\/p>\n<p>and tied it with string<\/p>\n<p>so the pieces wouldn&#8217;t fall out<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You said when you heard it<\/p>\n<p>you took a key to your mouth<\/p>\n<p>twisted it shut<\/p>\n<p>and swallowed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Because there are listening ears<\/p>\n<p>and sly fingers<\/p>\n<p>there to consume<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The secret that floats in my face<\/p>\n<p>foaming from your mouth<\/p>\n<p>between us and everyone<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Where are the promises<\/p>\n<p>the bond in the box<\/p>\n<p>the oath tied with string<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the air with everything else<\/p>\n<p>that you said was safe<\/p>\n<p>in your locked box<\/p>\n<p>made of rib bones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Secret &nbsp; You said my secret was safe in your locked box made of rib bones &nbsp; You said you bundled it up in a cream-colored cloth and tied it with string so the pieces wouldn&#8217;t fall out &nbsp; You said when you heard it you took a key to your mouth twisted it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2246,"featured_media":20290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1774,1848,1835,110],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20476"}],"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=20476"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20917,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20476\/revisions\/20917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}