Feeling “thought out” today. Well . . . maybe not for the whole day but for right now.\u00a0 So I am going to excerpt on of my own poems and hope no one steals it (which maybe wishful thinking anyway).<\/p>\n
Still, there had already been a hand on the heart, which was soon followed by another one on the throat and then the two bonfires in the two different places.<\/em><\/p>\n Almost everyone at the second fire had on a tie. So many handsome Windsor knots, almost everywhere I looked, and all of them I imagined had been carefully tightened by someone, lovingly in some instances, but at the very least with deep appreciation for a fine square jaw and a strong chin.<\/em><\/p>\n Except for me, I kept my collar open and my Feeling “thought out” today. Well . . . maybe not for the whole day but for right now.\u00a0 So I am going to excerpt on of my own poems and hope no one steals it (which maybe wishful thinking anyway). Still, there had already been a hand on the heart, which was soon followed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mtb","category-written"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nskin underneath bare, leaving
\nmy pharynx and my
\nthorax and my
\nwindpipe so
\nvery exposed.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"