{"id":652,"date":"2022-12-06T01:12:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T01:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/?p=652"},"modified":"2024-10-11T04:39:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T04:39:58","slug":"imminence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"Imminence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">I dreamt of you<br><br>you beneath a shroud<br>thin and white and still<br><br>my knees cracked<br>against the floor<br>as dread congealed and<br>dropped within my chest<br><br>I swept my arm<br>across your neck<br>buried my face <br>in the cold<br><br>and all at once I saw you<br>in the dark, asleep<br>my tiny hand upon your breast<br>the deep thump of life<br>under your skin<br><br>and by that pulse<br>the imminence of death arose<br><br>sometimes the smallest<br>minds understand the most<br><br>when I awoke<br>It was only you I wrote<br><em>Please be in my life<\/em><br><br>And in reply<br>A cold and still<br><em>No.<\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">December 5, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dreamt of youyou beneath a shroudthin and white and stillmy knees crackedagainst the flooras dread congealed anddropped within my chestI swept my armacross your neckburied my face in the coldand all at once I saw youin the dark, asleepmy tiny hand upon your breastthe deep thump of lifeunder your skinand by that pulsethe imminence&#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":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","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=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}