{"id":309,"date":"2020-04-30T15:05:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T15:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/15-2\/?page_id=309"},"modified":"2020-04-30T20:25:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T20:25:43","slug":"a-spark-of-lightning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/a-spark-of-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"A Spark of Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">by <strong>Ryan Cory<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spark of lightning, the rays of thought&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her mind awakens, her body&nbsp;wrought&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With pains and sores, she attempts to rise&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She covers her face, she shields her eyes&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her thoughts are a mess, no longer a stream&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A head filled with water, to burst at the seam&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She sits up now, her vision blurry&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She takes her time, she\u2019s in no hurry&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It stands before her, foreign and strange&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An agent of chaos, a source of change&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She reached for her friend, calling its name&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It eyed her with hatred, and she was to blame&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her thoughts came back, her eyes grew wider&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She started to crawl, crossed the black divider&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her guilt and shame, always alive&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those two things, her only drive&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It reached for her hand, and she as well&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it snapped her arm, with nary a yell&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ryan Cory A spark of lightning, the rays of thought&nbsp; Her mind awakens, her body&nbsp;wrought&nbsp; With pains and sores, she attempts to rise&nbsp; She covers her face, she shields her eyes&nbsp; Her thoughts are a mess, no longer a stream&nbsp; A head filled with water, to burst at the seam&nbsp; She sits up now,&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/a-spark-of-lightning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Spark of Lightning<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-309","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/309\/revisions\/310"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}