{"id":268,"date":"2025-04-16T08:47:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T08:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/?p=268"},"modified":"2025-04-16T08:47:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T08:47:01","slug":"the-haunting-of-a-raindrop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"the haunting of a raindrop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">sometimes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">upon the tender caress<br>of headlights gliding by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a window<br>recalls you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">tattooed in rainfall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">as if suddenly a galaxy of stars<br>entombed in ocean&#8217;s amber<br>forms a mosaic of miniscule museums<br>displaying separate heartbreaks<br>within every gilded pinprick<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and the dusk<br>as though dared to<br>peels the world<br>nude<br>beyond its bones<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">until it is mere scent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">mere indigo<br>as an anesthetic<br>by which the day<br>dies in its sleep<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">to meet you somewhere in a dream<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and the grass<br>bows to the falling sun<br>to taunt the clocks<br>for all that time can never touch<br>but merely tell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">through ripples in ponds of stone<br>or bruises on the moon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">that pearl diver&#8217;s muse<br>who blushes shadow<br>into a cloak of oblivion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">like you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">everywhere forever<br>but never there<br>in truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artwork: everywhere forever but never there in truth, By Ben Heart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[7,8,6],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love-poems","category-poetry","tag-benheart","tag-love","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}