a storm wrecked my ship, gave me debris in exchange for a life, mildew in place of a body. i do not know where you are now. i am standing on the driftwood, wishing i had been destroyed along with you. i am more whole than i have ever been. <\/p>\n
this is how i learn about greed: when your world is something you have touched, anchors and bones, a fleeting, flickering thing, you have not truly possessed it. i remember the crack of thunder, the hurricane forming a canyon in my head. i wonder if i heard it at all. the destruction, the aftermath. you, gone. and that moment between\u2014when your hand slipped, before you hit the ground, a purgatory that belongs to you. i would like to go there. then perhaps i can still feel the body of your ghost in my arms.<\/p>\n
loss did not break me; you did. loss is having known you at all. what i have been left with is grief, the skeleton of your laughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
a storm wrecked my ship, gave me debris in exchange for a life, mildew in place of a body. i do not know where you are now. i am standing on the driftwood, wishing i had been destroyed along with you. i am more whole than i have ever been. this is how i learn… Continue reading how to write a tragedy & stop time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,22],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-writing","tag-mdzs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroceu.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroceu.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroceu.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroceu.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroceu.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aroceu.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/aroceu.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroceu.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroceu.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroceu.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}