{"id":500,"date":"2026-05-18T21:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/?p=500"},"modified":"2026-05-18T21:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:56:19","slug":"voyager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"voyager"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">oh voyager<br>of light&#8217;s omission<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; I am sure<br>that in time<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; my eyes<br>will remember<br>how to see in darkness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">but my skin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">can&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; never<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; contain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; your absence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">godspeed my love<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and may the atoms<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; remember<br>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; how to be roses<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; &nbsp; wherever you go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(and at once<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; you made<br>of my every lovetorn vacancy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a holy ground<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; a wilderness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and I knew<br>right then and there<br><br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; I knew<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">that my buoyancy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">would never be<br>unconditional<br>again.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artwork: a holy ground: a wilderness, By Ben Heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[7,8,6],"class_list":["post-500","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\/500","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=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benheart.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}