{"id":239,"date":"2022-02-05T17:45:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T17:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcielsims.com\/?p=239"},"modified":"2022-02-06T00:33:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T00:33:28","slug":"a-poem-to-hope-for-spring-marcie-sims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/05\/a-poem-to-hope-for-spring-marcie-sims\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem to Hope for Spring, Marcie Sims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_2331.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_2331.jpg 640w, https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_2331-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Still waiting for spring&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Distraction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spring in the Northwest<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; creeps\nin slowly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sun stalks the waiting buds,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>bursting eagerly at the first touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fingers of light and heat trigger<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>bursts of color, tart yellows, juicy purples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The strawberry-sweet scent of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>persimmon-pink roses and sugar-sweet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>honeysuckle perfume the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, inevitably, thoughts of you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>slip back into my head,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>delicious ache of muscle and gut,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the hairs on my skin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>like Lazarus, rising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;Marcie Sims (c)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distraction Spring in the Northwest &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; creeps in slowly. Sun stalks the waiting buds, bursting eagerly at the first touch. Fingers of light and heat trigger bursts of color, tart yellows, juicy purples. The strawberry-sweet scent of persimmon-pink roses and sugar-sweet honeysuckle perfume the air. Then, inevitably, thoughts of you slip back into my head, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/05\/a-poem-to-hope-for-spring-marcie-sims\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Poem to Hope for Spring, Marcie Sims&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}