{"id":422,"date":"2026-03-13T19:53:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T19:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/?p=422"},"modified":"2026-03-13T19:53:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T19:53:56","slug":"25-in-fragments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"25 in fragments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(1.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">this is me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">reshaping the cracks<br>into roots&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; of healing<br>into&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; veins<br>patiently awaiting a light<br>that&nbsp;&nbsp; sky<br>is&nbsp;&nbsp; yet to dream of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(2.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">this is me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">letting the hairs on my skin<br>hum along<br>to the grieving<br>wind<br>as it washes<br>the pale underbellies<br>of the leaves<br>with echoes of birdsong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(3.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">walking back my promises<br>ripping seeds from the earth<br>and stuffing them back<br>under my tongue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">as not to let our goodbyes<br>sit there like a weed<br>in our perfect plot<br>of forget-me-nots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(4.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">six months in<br>and still refraining<br>from luring fireflies into my lungs<br>as a substitute for love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(5.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">this is me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(still) resisting the river<br>at the point<br>where the journey extends<br>only through letting go<br>of the sheer violence of form<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">waiting and seeing<br>if I too<br>can weep myself back together<br>or if this time<br>I will really stay gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture: Vanishing Point (1.), By Ben Heart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,6],"class_list":["post-422","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\/422","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=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}