{"id":1707,"date":"2014-03-26T11:38:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T15:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2014-03-26T11:38:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T15:38:05","slug":"i-want-to-tell-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/2014\/03\/26\/i-want-to-tell-you\/","title":{"rendered":"I WANT TO TELL YOU"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/elyzabeth\/\" target=\"_blank\">ELYZABETH<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>I want to tell you about<br \/>\nthe forest living inside of me,<br \/>\nthe way the trees have your<br \/>\nname carved along the bark,<br \/>\nand the way there is a beehive sitting<br \/>\nin my skull.<br \/>\nI want to tell you about<br \/>\nthe way my body buzzes<br \/>\nwhen you&#8217;re next to me.<br \/>\nI want to tell you that I am sorry.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot be there to put you together<br \/>\nafter you kiss storms that rip you apart<br \/>\nI want to be the river you chase,<br \/>\nbut you are packing suitcases<br \/>\nand writing poetry about the floods<br \/>\nthat the last girl left behind.<br \/>\nAnd after all the time you spent<br \/>\nwith your head under water.<\/p>\n<p>You probably think you need a drought, you don&#8217;t.<br \/>\nYou need someone who kisses you the right way,<br \/>\na drop of water that comes back to the shore.<br \/>\nJust to wash over your skin.<br \/>\nYou are too busy,<br \/>\nrunning from the tide to see the waves that want to kiss you like an ambulance.<br \/>\nThe way you have been dying<br \/>\nfor a long time,<br \/>\nthe waves that want to torment you<br \/>\nthat you can finally be saved.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/elyzabeth\/\" target=\"_blank\">ELYZABETH<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I want to tell you about<br \/> the forest living inside of me,<br \/> the way the trees have your<br \/> name carved along the bark,<br \/> and the way there is a beehive sitting<br \/> in my skull.<br \/> I want to tell you about<br \/> the way my body [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2879,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[315],"tags":[79532],"coauthors":[219163],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-elyzabeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/1725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}