{"id":172,"date":"2022-04-05T01:59:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T01:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-2\/?page_id=172"},"modified":"2022-04-29T09:19:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T09:19:39","slug":"sea-salt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/poetry\/sea-salt\/","title":{"rendered":"sea salt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Amari Liebe<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>my toes curl up against the edge<\/p>\n<p>fragments of pebble and earth<\/p>\n<p>settling in between them like pinpricks<\/p>\n<p>a blanket of blue beneath me<\/p>\n<p>no end to be seen for miles<\/p>\n<p>the shape of him the only pattern<\/p>\n<p>the only contrast, the only haven<\/p>\n<p>whispers of his encouragement drift up<\/p>\n<p>floating around but never quite landing<\/p>\n<p>\u2018what ifs\u2019 echo back to deflect<\/p>\n<p>a grin twist upon his glass skin<\/p>\n<p>i ponder if sinister or real<\/p>\n<p>two options weigh between my shoulders<\/p>\n<p>lain in a heart not partial to change<\/p>\n<p>the wind collides into my back<\/p>\n<p>i stumble,<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>down<\/p>\n<p>i<\/p>\n<p>go<\/p>\n<p>gasping the icy sea salt air<\/p>\n<p>i catch his gaze<\/p>\n<p>and crash<\/p>\n<p>in the blanket of endless blue<\/p>\n<p>fears riding with me through the waves<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>will he pull me out, or see me to drown?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amari Liebe &nbsp; my toes curl up against the edge fragments of pebble and earth settling in between them like pinpricks a blanket of blue beneath me no end to be seen for miles the shape of him the only pattern the only contrast, the only haven whispers of his encouragement drift up floating around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-172","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions\/784"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}