{"id":4145,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4145"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-heat-of-the-night","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-heat-of-the-night\/","title":{"rendered":"The heat of the night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The heat of the night<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 22, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/49.html]<\/p>\n<p>His hands had held the unrelenting heat<br \/>\nAs sultry day became the southern night<br \/>\nShe drank him deep until she lay replete<br \/>\nA tangled mass of tingling delight<\/p>\n<p>No breeze disturbed the air above her bed<br \/>\nBut she could feel his fingers moving still<br \/>\nHis every movement echoed through her head<br \/>\nShe&#8217;d let herself surrender to his will<\/p>\n<p>The haunted dark could hide each last regret<br \/>\nBut she could not undo what he had done<br \/>\nA tortured gasp beneath each bead of sweat<br \/>\nThe dead of night no respite from the sun<\/p>\n<p>She stretched her mind but could not find his name<br \/>\nCould not decode the message of her dreams<br \/>\nHe played her mind as though she were a game<br \/>\nAnd picked apart the stitches of her seams<\/p>\n<p>Will he return to take another sip<br \/>\nShe dare not move to break that unseen spell<br \/>\nHer nerves so taught a single fingertip<br \/>\nWould bring her heaven&#8217;s touch from silent Hell<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nimage is by&#8230;.Thomas Doering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heat of the night by cricketjeff on September 22, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/49.html] His hands had held the unrelenting heat As sultry day became the southern night She drank him deep until she lay replete A tangled mass of tingling delight No breeze disturbed the air above her bed But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4145","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4145","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=4145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7364,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4145\/revisions\/7364"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}