{"id":198,"date":"2026-04-07T22:47:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/?page_id=198"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:48:09","slug":"a-pinkeys-promise","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/poetry\/a-pinkeys-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pinkey&#8217;s Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #003366\">Michael Roque<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">Weariness,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">adventuring in daydreams\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">rotting in a reality<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">out of reach<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">behind wide open windows<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">on a ground floor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">Ears hear the click clack of possibility\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">eyes scan the same ceiling,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">mind strains willing mobility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">Mouth screams, \u201cLegs\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">Move! walk!! Stand bold!!!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">Voice begs \u201cHands\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">Grasp! Ball up!! Take hold!!!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">Experts say one day,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">but a few hopeful mornings<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">mold into months<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">as bodily flesh fuses<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">to bedding\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">a fabric human lump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">By an inch\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">a pinky lifts<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">a promise to the whole body.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Roque Weariness, adventuring in daydreams\u2014 rotting in a reality out of reach behind wide open windows on a ground floor. Ears hear the click clack of possibility\u2014 eyes scan the same ceiling, mind strains willing mobility. &nbsp; Mouth screams, \u201cLegs\u2014 Move! walk!! Stand bold!!!\u201d Voice begs \u201cHands\u2014 Grasp! Ball up!! Take hold!!!\u201d Experts say&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/poetry\/a-pinkeys-promise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Pinkey&#8217;s Promise<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-198","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/198\/revisions\/238"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}