{"id":261,"date":"2016-11-17T19:37:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T19:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=261"},"modified":"2016-11-17T19:37:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T19:37:47","slug":"poem-of-the-month-amnesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"Poem of the Month: Amnesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A body is a simple gift<br \/>\nwithout the sidling mind in tow<br \/>\nto guess the sense in every move<br \/>\nto lathe out of silence<br \/>\nwhat might have been said<\/p>\n<p>Your touch urges amnesia<br \/>\nof all but the orbit of your hands<br \/>\nyou unwind me thread by thread<br \/>\nlike a silk cocoon.<br \/>\nI feel the sprouting of new parts<br \/>\nI need not name<\/p>\n<p>To stem the words<br \/>\nI take you in my mouth<br \/>\na pilgrim\u2019s rite<br \/>\nyou twine your fingers in my hair<br \/>\nsing yes, yes, yes<br \/>\nlike a pious altar boy<br \/>\nchanting Latin praises<br \/>\nhe does not understand<\/p>\n<p>Then I cup you in a crescent moon<br \/>\npull at you like the witless tide.<br \/>\nwe forget who is soft, who is hard<br \/>\ndo not see where we are or why,<br \/>\nall thoughts slyly banished<br \/>\nby salt-lick love<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/images-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-257\" src=\"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/images-1.jpeg\" alt=\"images-1\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A body is a simple gift without the sidling mind in tow to guess the sense in every move to <a href=\"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=261\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-noellesickelswp","post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-allposts","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}