{"id":1607,"date":"2002-12-24T01:31:55","date_gmt":"2002-12-24T09:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2013-04-01T01:33:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T08:33:11","slug":"shrink-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/2002\/12\/24\/shrink-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrink No More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When will I not shrink<br \/>\nbefore the curves of your face?<br \/>\nThere is no reason to hide<br \/>\nmy own infatuation,<br \/>\nmy own fear of falling,<br \/>\nfear of getting up<br \/>\nand going down.<\/p>\n<p>I see<br \/>\na wind-licked lip to hit,<br \/>\ncontours to keep me<br \/>\non edge as I carve my<br \/>\nown curves on yours;<br \/>\na soft and secret armor,<br \/>\nyour curves, your coverage,<br \/>\nyour base.<\/p>\n<p>I see<br \/>\nchutes to take me down,<br \/>\nbumps to send me up,<br \/>\ndistant valleys, skies and friends<br \/>\nto go with me to this run&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n<p>I see<br \/>\nsomething I love,<br \/>\nand do not understand.<br \/>\nFutile, perhaps, to the uninitiated;<br \/>\nthe soul is freed,<br \/>\nthe mind is rested,<br \/>\nthe body tired.<br \/>\nThere is no futility here.<\/p>\n<p>I see<br \/>\nexhileration in my future,<br \/>\nfreedom from anything that<br \/>\nis not here and now.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom<br \/>\non the snow-capped mountain,<br \/>\nfrom which I shrink<br \/>\nno more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When will I not shrink<br \/> before the curves of your face?<br \/> There is no reason to hide<br \/> my own infatuation,<br \/> my own fear of falling,<br \/> fear of getting up<br \/> and going down.<\/p>\n<p>I see<br \/> a wind-licked lip to hit,<br \/> contours to keep me<br \/> on edge as I carve my<br \/> own [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-poems","category-songs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1608,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}