{"id":10362,"date":"2024-04-05T22:47:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T22:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=10362"},"modified":"2024-04-05T22:51:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T22:51:18","slug":"pure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/pure\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure by Marcia Trahan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PURE<\/h2>\n

Pure<\/h2>\n

Listen: living
\nis what I want to talk about.<\/p>\n

When my struggles ended,
\nI simply walked down
\na newly opened path.<\/p>\n

I saw the sun,
\nbuilding gold and true.<\/p>\n

Survival brings guilt
\nwhen so many go dark.<\/p>\n

But I knew that
\nmy spirit would not fly off,
\nthe black earth would not consume me.
\nI saw grasshoppers flitting greenly at my feet,
\nI saw a cardinal dressed in its reds,
\nwatching to see what I would do next.<\/p>\n

In the exact center of my body
\nthere was fire, an irrepressible flame:
\nfuel, not damage,
\npure, no ashes.<\/p>\n

Marcia Trahan is the author of\u00a0Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsession<\/i>\u00a0(Barrelhouse Books). Her essays and poetry have appeared in\u00a0HuffPost<\/i>,\u00a0Two Hawks Quarterly<\/i>,\u00a0Wild Roof Journal<\/i>,\u00a0Cloudbank<\/i>,\u00a0The Rumpus<\/i>,\u00a0Catapult<\/i>, the\u00a0Brevity<\/i>\u00a0Blog,\u00a0Fourth Genre<\/i>, and other publications. Marcia works as a freelance book editor and holds an MFA from Bennington College. To learn more, visit\u00a0www.marciatrahan.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marcia Trahan is the author of\u00a0Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsession\u00a0(Barrelhouse Books). Her essays and poetry have appeared in\u00a0HuffPost,\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contemporary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}