{"id":2739,"date":"2023-09-03T09:46:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T13:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2739"},"modified":"2023-09-03T09:46:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T13:46:20","slug":"the-hope-i-carried-with-me-to-bed-by-radiance-angelina-petro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2739","title":{"rendered":"The Hope I Carried With Me to Bed, by Radiance Angelina Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hope I Carried With Me to Bed<br \/>\nby<br \/>\nRadiance Angelina Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Late evening sky\u2014the color of Kali.<br \/>\nMind swirling with anti-mantras.<br \/>\nI gave the morning a five-star review&#8211;<br \/>\neven added a couple comments of praise.<\/p>\n<p>And then the day happened.<\/p>\n<p>So many missing pieces, and not just<br \/>\nthe centermost. A whole row of edges\u2014gone.<\/p>\n<p>But I am familiar with this emptiness,<br \/>\nand once again I walked the pilgrim\u2019s walk<br \/>\nhoping to find rest by a stream of faith.<\/p>\n<p>I felt swindled.<\/p>\n<p>Heart pitted against mind, body against<br \/>\nspirit, time against soul, good against<br \/>\nbad, me against me.<\/p>\n<p>Called in reinforcements of intuition<br \/>\nand managed to see a caterpillar<br \/>\nfeeding on hibiscus leaves,<br \/>\nand the cafe had well-salted soup,<br \/>\nwashed the lettuce and there weren\u2019t<br \/>\nany snails, although I like snails<br \/>\nand bring them outside whenever<br \/>\nI find one.<\/p>\n<p>What is the solution to this inevitable<br \/>\nnihilism that follows me even in secret?<\/p>\n<p>All I know is by nightfall Kali unfolded<br \/>\nher red tongue and revealed the moon,<br \/>\nand she was hungry. And that\u2019s the hope<br \/>\nI carried with me to bed that night, and I fell asleep<br \/>\nto the sound of her terrible steps moving<br \/>\nacross the land\u2014her ankle bracelets<br \/>\njangling, like a thousand cracked bells, as she searched<br \/>\nfor something to crush.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hope I Carried With Me to Bed by Radiance Angelina Petro &nbsp; &nbsp; Late evening sky\u2014the color of Kali. Mind swirling with anti-mantras. I gave the morning a five-star review&#8211; even added a couple comments of praise. And then the day happened. So many missing pieces, and not just the centermost. A whole row [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739"}],"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=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2740,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions\/2740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}