{"id":1557,"date":"2016-09-10T02:40:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T01:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2016-09-15T02:11:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T01:11:00","slug":"for-her-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1557","title":{"rendered":"For Her Pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She looked for my poem,<br \/>\nas if I\u2019d found a star<br \/>\nsmall enough,<br \/>\nto put in her pocket,<br \/>\nlike a small bird<br \/>\nfluttering with white wings,<br \/>\nand blue dreams,<br \/>\na Cyclops\u2019 eye,<br \/>\nseeing everything.<br \/>\nA moment when love was exchanged,<br \/>\nput into light.<\/p>\n<p>She cherished something<br \/>\nthat grew,<br \/>\nunlikely,<br \/>\nfrom a vague space,<br \/>\nfrom a heart<br \/>\nthat frequently lost its way.<br \/>\nI saw<br \/>\nhow huge her heart was.<br \/>\nIt was a space,<br \/>\nbigger than a star<br \/>\nneeds to breathe.<br \/>\nIt burned with white hope,<br \/>\ntraveled in pure lightness.<\/p>\n<p>So I gave her a poem,<br \/>\nday after day,<br \/>\nlike a moth<br \/>\nrising from a marsh.<br \/>\nLess than she deserved,<br \/>\ndew from old grass,<br \/>\nbut a star for her,<br \/>\nnothing less than a star.<br \/>\nA kiss to put on her lips,<br \/>\na poem,<br \/>\nto put music in her heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She looked for my poem, as if I\u2019d found a star small enough, to put in her pocket, like a small bird fluttering with white&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1557\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For Her Pocket<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-index-of-all-poems","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5012,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions\/5012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}