{"id":1296,"date":"2016-02-24T20:17:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T01:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2016-02-24T20:18:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T01:18:54","slug":"moon-psalm-by-jennifer-angelina-petro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=1296","title":{"rendered":"Moon Psalm, by Jennifer Angelina Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moon Psalm<br \/>\nBy<br \/>\nJennifer Angelina Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You pull the tides in with silver reigns<br \/>\nAnd flood the shores of my already loosening faith,<br \/>\nYou bring dark water to the roots of my self-loathing<br \/>\nAnd sprout entire orchards of menacing trees,<br \/>\nYou coax little rivulets to migrate to hidden gardens of shame<br \/>\nThat grow in the corners of my mind, helping them thrive<br \/>\nAnd spread like vines of poison ivy,<br \/>\nYou throw down rain and muddy the earth of my hope,<br \/>\nYou trouble the lakes and ponds of my dreams, creating resonances<br \/>\nThat only go so far\u2014far enough to seep over the roads<br \/>\nOf where I think I should be going, far enough to soak the fields of wonder<br \/>\nI used to love; far enough to lap at the horizon that for some reason<br \/>\nStill wants me&#8211;Moon, you draw forth tears from the well of my soul<br \/>\nAnd turn the waterwheel that powers the millstones<br \/>\nThat grind the flour of my sorrow into the bitter bread of not caring anymore\u2014<br \/>\nMoon, you know I need you\u2014you know you are the most high\u2014<br \/>\nGo ahead drown me&#8211;carry me home in the folds of your silver river<br \/>\nAnd lay me on the shores of your breathing<br \/>\nWhere I can become one with the sky.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/moon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1265\" src=\"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/moon-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"moon\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/moon-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/moon.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moon Psalm By Jennifer Angelina Petro &nbsp; &nbsp; You pull the tides in with silver reigns And flood the shores of my already loosening faith, You bring dark water to the roots of my self-loathing And sprout entire orchards of menacing trees, You coax little rivulets to migrate to hidden gardens of shame That grow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[70,293,203,383,626,625,222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}