{"id":9329,"date":"2012-11-18T22:21:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T20:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=9329"},"modified":"2012-12-27T22:23:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T20:23:37","slug":"poems-by-a-j-huffman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=9329","title":{"rendered":"Poems by A.J. Huffman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Stale Hearts Drifting Apart<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>This is what happens<\/p>\n<p>when silk turns<\/p>\n<p>to stone.<\/p>\n<p>This cold.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This gray.<\/p>\n<p>This silence<\/p>\n<p>is only the beginning<\/p>\n<p>of the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Such grief<\/p>\n<p>is like an ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Rushing in<\/p>\n<p>to capture a smile.<\/p>\n<p>Then dragging it out.<\/p>\n<p>Just to hear its absence.<\/p>\n<p>Echo back<\/p>\n<p>from the waves.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>A Rainbow\u2019s Fountainhead<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>This world is all destination.<\/p>\n<p>Yet I cannot stand<\/p>\n<p>the constant motion<\/p>\n<p>required<\/p>\n<p>just to breathe.<\/p>\n<p>So I crack.<\/p>\n<p>My smile<\/p>\n<p>is an earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>A natural disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Falling apart at random.<\/p>\n<p>No warning.<\/p>\n<p>Just debris.<\/p>\n<p>I can see it<\/p>\n<p>in your eyes.<\/p>\n<p>You hate to sweep me away.<\/p>\n<p>You know I will only come again.<\/p>\n<p>Heavier.<\/p>\n<p>Harder.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it takes<\/p>\n<p>to get you.<\/p>\n<p>To believe.<\/p>\n<p>I am the end<\/p>\n<p>you need.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Curiosity<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>is admirable.\u00a0 <i>Meow.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>(Hello Kitty.)\u00a0 Maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>Check the box.<\/p>\n<p>Pandora&#8217;s not the litter.<\/p>\n<p>If the lock is in tact we can<\/p>\n<p>continue.\u00a0 Theoretically,<\/p>\n<p>(or was it metaphorically?)<\/p>\n<p>[Meta]Physics dictate desire.<\/p>\n<p>Which is something<\/p>\n<p>we all direly need.<\/p>\n<p>In the back of our minds.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe the front of our beds.<\/p>\n<p>(But that one is debatable.\u00a0 And<\/p>\n<p>often even interchangeable with)<\/p>\n<p>The subject[ive] links<\/p>\n<p>our subconscious to the superlative.<\/p>\n<p>Est is the goal<\/p>\n<p>The golden-keyed cherry-filled<\/p>\n<p>sugar-coated apex.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, tell me again.<\/p>\n<p>What will this hell do<\/p>\n<p>once we&#8217;re there?<\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stale Hearts Drifting Apart \u00a0 This is what happens when silk turns to stone. This cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,77],"tags":[938,1161,1123],"class_list":["post-9329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egophobia-36","category-english","tag-a-j-huffman","tag-egophobia-36","tag-english"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DakB-2qt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9330,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9329\/revisions\/9330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}