{"id":2550,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2550"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:42:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:42:57","slug":"apart","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-poems\/apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Apart<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 27, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe leather book I slipped inside your case<br \/>\nContains a sonnet for each day apart<br \/>\nIn violet ink, the contents of my heart<br \/>\nAnd ev&#8217;ry word put carefully in place<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 The ring I hid for you to find so soon<br \/>\n\u00a0 A simple box with just one thing inside<br \/>\n\u00a0 I knew the perfect place for it to hide<br \/>\n\u00a0 When you are sad you have to play that tune<\/p>\n<p>Upon my hand the gold appears so pale<br \/>\nA single diamond like a drip of dew<br \/>\nEach time I see my hand I think of you<br \/>\nAnd of the love we share that cannot fail<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 First on my wall I traced your silhouette<br \/>\n\u00a0 A crisp black line to show your lovely face<br \/>\n\u00a0 With ev&#8217;ry subtle feature in its place<br \/>\n\u00a0 I clasp your book and read and can&#8217;t forget<\/p>\n<p>The ceiling fan revolves above my head<br \/>\nI know the words that you will read each day<br \/>\nFor in my heart each poem has to stay<br \/>\nI listen to your voice as we&#8217;re in bed<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 The texture of my sheets is like your skin<br \/>\n\u00a0 I hear your voice in ev&#8217;ry line I read<br \/>\n\u00a0 I gobble up each sonnet in my greed<br \/>\n\u00a0 And know that in the end we have to win<\/p>\n<p>I\/You will know the answer when we meet<br \/>\nAnd then my love our lives can be complete<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nInterlocking sonnets, his and hers with (almost) shared couplet to end<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apart by cricketjeff on March 27, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The leather book I slipped inside your case Contains a sonnet for each day apart In violet ink, the contents of my heart And ev&#8217;ry word put carefully in place \u00a0 The ring I hid for you to find so soon \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9692,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2550","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8957,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2550\/revisions\/8957"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}