{"id":1379,"date":"2012-09-16T22:55:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T22:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2017-07-11T21:24:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T21:24:25","slug":"soar-by-camille-thigpen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/soar-by-camille-thigpen\/","title":{"rendered":"soar by Camille Thigpen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Twirl-of-Light.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1198 lazyload\" title=\"Twirl of Light\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Twirl-of-Light-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Twirl-of-Light-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Twirl-of-Light.jpg 810w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/177;\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">soar<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Camille Thigpen<\/p>\n<p>and this is for<br \/>\nultramarine<br \/>\nink<br \/>\nsplatters<br \/>\non my wrist and<br \/>\njawbone; this<\/p>\n<p>is for clavicles sharpened<br \/>\nby crescent-moon blades<br \/>\n, float,<br \/>\nether-lithe (hollow<br \/>\nbones and swollen<br \/>\nfingers: similar<br \/>\nends [signpost<br \/>\nrusted; hum,<br \/>\nsoftly, origin on this<br \/>\nhere street someone<br \/>\nsometime was born,<br \/>\ndespite glass between<br \/>\ncobblestones])<\/p>\n<p>this is for<br \/>\nincense-smoke imagery<br \/>\nscenes they slip through calloused<br \/>\nlife-scratched palms niagra-falls-like<br \/>\n( flick&amp;flow )<\/p>\n<p>this<br \/>\nis<br \/>\nfor desecrating paper<br \/>\nand crossing streets (against traffic<br \/>\nlights), for misidentified galaxies in 2 a.m.<br \/>\nskies \u00a0this<br \/>\nis for <em>crash and swoop and<\/em><\/p>\n<p>we are alive.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Camille Thigpen is a Bard College student. She was a 2010 Sollentuna Library finalist in their short story competition, awared honable mention in 2011 by thestival American Library of paris for her submission to the Young authors Fiction Festival, and a Taft College Literary Magazine 3 of her poems in 2012. She had lived in Pennsylvania and Sweden, but currently is based in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>soar by Camille Thigpen and this is for ultramarine ink splatters on my wrist and jawbone; this is for clavicles sharpened by crescent-moon blades , float, ether-lithe (hollow bones and swollen fingers: similar ends [signpost rusted; hum, softly, origin on this here street someone sometime was born, despite glass between cobblestones]) this is for incense-smoke&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[428,319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-poems","category-moon-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","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=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}