{"id":288,"date":"2025-06-16T08:40:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T08:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/?p=288"},"modified":"2025-06-16T08:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T08:41:11","slug":"a-handful-of-shade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"a handful of shade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">once again the kettle swells<br>and for that split second<br>wherein the whole world instinctively still calls your name<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">light disjoins from dusk<br>to dance in spindrifts &#8217;round the empty kitchen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">where the cup awaits your lips<br>to exchange per habit its sunkissed oceans within<br>for another day&#8217;s intimate history<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">but then the birds race home through the wound of nightfall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and the cup, and the kitchen, and the world<br>remember how a child has died of old age<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">how no warmth shall infuse you now<br>and no smile nor sigh shall ever again flow like gold through its cracks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and once again the sheer magnitude of love<br>drowns within a handful of shade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere close to home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,6],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-benheart","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","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=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}