{"id":840,"date":"2023-08-22T06:35:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T10:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=840"},"modified":"2023-08-23T06:29:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T10:29:59","slug":"cloudless-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=840","title":{"rendered":"cloudless sky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">I've lived under a cloudless sky\nwhere everything is literal,\nweather by the calendar,\nall drama internalized.\n\nI prefer virtual worlds, perfect one\ndimensional riverbeds, shining day\nand night, a meaningful grind, empty\nof needs, empty of want.\n\nThe shoe-leather world is a spinning\nwheel, a destructive boredom, an\nempty wallet. I can't vanish\nanymore. I haven't seen\nfireflies in so long, heard\na cricket, been prickled\nby green leaves.\n\nI see the sun.\nSometimes.\n\nGold scattering behind gray\nfeathers. I sit on this concrete\ncouch beneath a tree planted\nexactly eight feet from its\nneighbor, its leaves too\nsparse to shelter me\nfrom the rain.\n\nTick tock.\n\nSilver bird\nwith rigid wings\ncrosses the sky at\nescape velocity, up into\na future I don't share.\n\nI'm more attuned to the crows\non the lamp poles, croaking\nover the roar of traffic,\nor the silent seagulls\nwho've traded their\nbeaches for dumpsters.\n\nThe sun has risen into\nthe clouds again.\n\nThere's a gap,\nlike I could reach\nmy hands into that\nwarm sky and wrap\nmy arms around a\ntreasure worth\nholding, a story\nworth telling.\n\nIt's that imperfect\nfuture that drives me\nforward, that unwanted\nkinship with the unfinished,\nthe incomplete.\n\nBut a backlit pixel closes the\nsynaptic gap and mocks my\nanalog heart.\n\nIt's time to clock in.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>August 22, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve lived under a cloudless sky where everything is literal,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=840\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">cloudless sky<\/span> <i class=\"fas fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[44,2],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-44","tag-poetry","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}