{"id":2243,"date":"2009-08-06T22:21:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T05:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=2243"},"modified":"2009-08-06T22:21:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T05:21:21","slug":"poem-the-moth-approached-me-like-a-blinking-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/08\/06\/poem-the-moth-approached-me-like-a-blinking-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: The Moth Approached Me Like a Blinking Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Lethe Bashar<\/strong><br \/>\nThe poet is the editor of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/escapeintolife.com\/\">Escape into Life<\/a><\/em>, arts\/culture web-zine and fine art auction. He is also working with an illustrator from Argentina on a graphic novel.  Besides that he keeps up an essay-blog,<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblogofinnocence.com\/\">The Blog of Innocence<\/a><\/em>, that covers topics in the arts, social technology, and a general philosophy of life.<\/p>\n<div class=\"poem\"><strong>The Moth Approached Me Like a Blinking Eye<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The moth approached me like a blinking eye,<br \/>\nI was having a cigarette in the garage.<br \/>\nThe birds squeaked in the far off darkness,<br \/>\na menacing sound disrupting the night.<\/p>\n<p>I pressed the moth to give me her reasons<br \/>\nfor staying up as late as she did&#8211;<br \/>\nShe continued to blink, and I awaited her answer,<br \/>\nbut nothing came.<\/p>\n<p>The birds heckled the darkness and the darkness<br \/>\nheckled back&#8211;the chaos persisted but<br \/>\nremained subdued and the neighbors<br \/>\nstayed in bed.<\/p>\n<p>The children, in their warm beds,<br \/>\nwere dreaming of magical places,<br \/>\nand I bemoaned my condition<br \/>\nwhile having my cigarette in the garage.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of summer, which was expected<br \/>\nto come, maybe tomorrow or never,<br \/>\nI figured I&#8217;d be sleeping when it did.<br \/>\nI thought of the hours I&#8217;d missed.<\/p>\n<p>The moth returned after awhile,<br \/>\nshe blinked her wings again and again,<br \/>\nShe seemed to know I had a mild fever,<br \/>\nshe seemed to know my memories too.<\/p>\n<p>Let me go, I said.  Be off.  I want to sleep.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lethe Bashar The poet is the editor of Escape into Life, arts\/culture web-zine and fine art auction. He is also working with an illustrator from Argentina on a graphic novel. Besides that he keeps up an essay-blog, The Blog of Innocence, that covers topics in the arts, social technology, and a general philosophy of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[565,167,168,2501],"class_list":["post-2243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-lethe-bashar","tag-poem","tag-poet","tag-poetry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2243"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}