{"id":1027,"date":"2026-03-01T16:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:12:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:12:53","slug":"whispers-from-elsewhere-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/?p=1027","title":{"rendered":"Whispers from Elsewhere #2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">I'd heard it most when on the cusp of sleep:<br>A whisper, unlike a voice, that scurried<br>From one ear to the next <br>Murmuring something light and breathless<br>Before slipping into the grey-black hum<br>Of a room bent on rest.<br><br>Usually I'd turn, pull the sheets to my nose<br>And breathe the scent of yesterday\u2019s warmth<br>(something of lotion and laundry and skin)<br>Which was all the henchman needed<br>To drag me by a dreamy foot<br>Into the realm where scampering whispers<br>Made sense.<br><br>But tonight I thought, <em>why not?<\/em><br>And shot wide, searching eyes<br>To the ceiling I could not see and said,<br>\"You know, <br><br>I can hear you,<br>And I don\u2019t speak whisper <br>So if you have something to say<br>I'll need you to say it in English, <br>Thank you very much.\"<br><br>The light came from somewhere<br>\u2014I don't know where\u2014<br>And only enough to glimmer hazy moons<br>Across eight black eyes descending<br>From the air above me.<br><br>\"You\u2019re the whisper,\" I said.<br>And the spider said, <em>I am<\/em>.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d heard it most when on the cusp of sleep:A whisper, unlike a voice, that scurriedFrom one ear to the next Murmuring something light and breathlessBefore slipping into the grey-black humOf a room bent on rest.Usually I&#8217;d turn, pull the sheets to my noseAnd breathe the scent of yesterday\u2019s warmth(something of lotion and laundry and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[259],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-magical-realism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}