{"id":1663,"date":"2018-11-16T19:46:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T02:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:13","slug":"beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2018\/11\/16\/beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Beach.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1665\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Beach-948x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"679\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BEACH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I close my eyes<br \/>\nwaves of darkness surround me<br \/>\nand I see your face<\/p>\n<p>Your tattered blue jeans<br \/>\nand oil-stained<br \/>\nfruit o&#8217; the loom t-shirts<br \/>\nare all I remember<\/p>\n<p>A face<br \/>\nin a photograph<br \/>\nI have no memory of you<br \/>\nonly what others have said<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember<br \/>\nyour laugh<br \/>\nyour smile<br \/>\nhow you walked<br \/>\nor held me in your arms<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know if you told me<br \/>\n\u201cI love you\u201d<br \/>\nor if you ever did<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re just<br \/>\na fading face<br \/>\nin a photograph<br \/>\nthat keeps me<br \/>\nup at night<\/p>\n<p><em>Written June 1990<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Oddly enough, I found this photo about fifteen years ago. I never knew it existed. I cannot, however, find that photo of him in his t-shirt anymore.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[257,284,285],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-new-york","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3797,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions\/3797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}