{"id":1854,"date":"2012-04-14T19:47:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T01:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/merri\/"},"modified":"2013-04-23T22:58:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T04:58:53","slug":"merri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/2011-a-virtual-chapbook\/merri\/","title":{"rendered":"Merri!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MR<\/a>I am writing
\n“Mark!”
\nfrantically writing
\n“MArk!”
\ndesperate to record
\nthese fragile thoughts
\n“MARK!”<\/p>\n

done. Back in bed,
\nshe says,
\n“I thought aliens had abducted you.”
\nHow can I hope
\nto be so imaginative? mjh<\/span><\/p>\n

24Feb97<\/small><\/p>\n

\n

Listen to Merri!<\/a> (22 seconds)<\/p>\n

This poem is yet another true story.<\/p>\n

We’ve been together 31 years (in October) and married 21 (in May). She is my muse and my best friend (cliché though that may be).<\/p>\n

My Virtual Chapbook<\/a> (table of contents)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am writing “Mark!” frantically writing “MArk!” desperate to record these fragile thoughts “MARK!” done. Back in bed, she says, “I thought aliens had abducted you.” How can I hope to be so imaginative? mjh 24Feb97 Listen to Merri! (22 seconds) This poem is yet another true story. We’ve been together 31 years (in October) … Continue reading Merri!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-a-virtual-chapbook","tag-merri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6139,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions\/6139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}