{"id":906,"date":"2014-01-05T05:04:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T05:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=906"},"modified":"2014-01-16T21:35:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T21:35:05","slug":"compliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=906","title":{"rendered":"COMPLIANCE &#8211;   Mark Melton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flint and locket,<br \/>\nPockets turned out to rid of dust.<br \/>\nFrom your perspective the flow<br \/>\nOf time is quite imperceptible.<br \/>\nFrom hers it is made of springs,<br \/>\nAnd gears, and string.<br \/>\nHer thoughts billow above<br \/>\nThe horizon. Her arms<br \/>\nBecome currents and fish.<br \/>\n&#8220;Now?&#8221; You ask her. &#8220;If not now, when?&#8221;<br \/>\nYou understand none of this.<br \/>\nShe falls to the ground and fills the earth.<br \/>\nTakes you inside her silence.<br \/>\nWarms your face with liquid hands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mark Melton resides in Melbourne, Australia, where he occasionally dabbles in poetry, as well as other similarly fruitless pursuits. He enjoys staying up late, over complicating matters, and writing about himself in third person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flint and locket, Pockets turned out to rid of dust. From your perspective the flow Of time is quite imperceptible. From hers it is made of springs, And gears, and string. Her thoughts billow above The horizon. Her arms Become currents and fish. &#8220;Now?&#8221; You ask her. &#8220;If not now, when?&#8221; You understand none of [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-art-daphne-christopher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}