{"id":577,"date":"2025-08-28T00:42:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T00:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/?p=577"},"modified":"2025-08-28T00:42:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T00:42:18","slug":"shapes-silhouettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/shapes-silhouettes\/","title":{"rendered":"Shapes &#038; Silhouettes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s often around 10pm<br>on random nights<br>I get the urge<br>to check your<br>online footprint<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Socials, Google, jail rosters<br>I gently plod along them all<br>prodding them for<br>any signs of life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For years,<br>your profile was blank<br>til suddenly<br>it wasn\u2019t<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your smile smiles<br>just the same<br>behind the facial hair you\u2019ve gained<br>and I resist<br>the urge to tap<br>the button to connect<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m really happy that you are alive<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m really happy that it seems you\u2019re thriving<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wish that you\u2019d still call me while you\u2019re driving<br>say there\u2019s something worth reviving<br>and you\u2019re sorry that you suddenly stopped trying<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess as long as you\u2019re no longer dying<br>then I can live without your voice replying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s often around 10pmon random nightsI get the urgeto check youronline footprint Socials, Google, jail rostersI gently plod along them allprodding them forany signs of life For years,your profile was blanktil suddenlyit wasn\u2019t Your smile smilesjust the samebehind the facial hair you\u2019ve gainedand I resistthe urge to tapthe button to connect I\u2019m really happy that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}