{"id":600,"date":"2022-11-18T06:15:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T06:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/18-1\/?page_id=600"},"modified":"2022-11-18T06:15:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T06:15:18","slug":"frosted-ghost","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/poetry\/frosted-ghost\/","title":{"rendered":"Frosted Ghost"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Darcy Mueller<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your iced hand grips to me<\/p>\n<p>Desperate search in pomp and pageantry<\/p>\n<p>Through my lungs you breathe<\/p>\n<p>And eyes you see<\/p>\n<p>Though you are a ghost of faded scenery<\/p>\n<p>Desperate for a body to haunt<\/p>\n<p>As I must fight to give you naught<\/p>\n<p>Though it is you I cannot pity<\/p>\n<p>It is you I cannot face<\/p>\n<p>It is your voice that whispers to the insane<\/p>\n<p>These lines on my skin were not etched by time<\/p>\n<p>But they are no less a bitter sign<\/p>\n<p>And they do not care who I became<\/p>\n<p>For in noise or silence they shall remain<\/p>\n<p>Though you may revel in these cracks<\/p>\n<p>I will not give to what you ask<\/p>\n<p>You may hold as fast as you will<\/p>\n<p>Seeking answers<\/p>\n<p>Or a fleeting thrill<\/p>\n<p>But my skin though cracked in cold<\/p>\n<p>Shall always have the strength to withstand your hold<\/p>\n<p>When at last the sun does melt your frost<\/p>\n<p>It shall warm my skin with rays kissing soft<\/p>\n<p>Though I cannot turn time from bruise and scar<\/p>\n<p>Even they have beauty from afar<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darcy Mueller &nbsp; Your iced hand grips to me Desperate search in pomp and pageantry Through my lungs you breathe And eyes you see Though you are a ghost of faded scenery Desperate for a body to haunt As I must fight to give you naught Though it is you I cannot pity It is you I cannot face It is your voice that whispers to the insane These lines on my skin were not etched by time But they are no less a bitter sign And they do not care who I became For in noise or silence they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-600","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/600\/revisions\/601"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}