{"id":1571,"date":"2013-02-11T00:57:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T00:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2017-07-12T02:01:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T02:01:11","slug":"jealousy-by-brendan-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/jealousy-by-brendan-sullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"Jealousy by Brendan Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/woods.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1098 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/woods.png\" alt=\"woods\" width=\"267\" height=\"366\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/woods.png 445w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/woods-218x300.png 218w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 267px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 267\/366;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJealousy<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Brendan Sullivan<\/p>\n<p>I forgot how jealousy<br \/>\nlooked on you &#8211;<br \/>\na brooch of many colors<br \/>\npinned to her dress<br \/>\njust above the breasts,<br \/>\nor a thin bright ribbon<br \/>\ntrailing off a straw hat.<\/p>\n<p>and how it smelled &#8211;<br \/>\ntoo much perfume in a<br \/>\ntiny space or<br \/>\nlemons bursting off the branches<br \/>\nto bloom at her feet.<\/p>\n<p>and how it sounded<br \/>\nlike too much music<br \/>\nfor one room to hold,<br \/>\nso it had to be shared<br \/>\nwith a stranger<br \/>\nwho wore candlelight<br \/>\nbeautifully.<\/p>\n<p>I forgot<br \/>\nhow it sat on your tongue &#8211;<br \/>\na sharp insect<br \/>\nshedding its wings,<br \/>\nand leaving me<br \/>\nto dream of her.<\/p>\n<p>###<br \/>\nI am a lifelong beach bum who has turned from acting to poetry, as I find it a more remarkable muse. I also enjoy surfing, sailing and diving. My work has been published at Wordsmiths, The Missing Slate, Every Writer&#8217;s Resource, Gutter Eloquence, A Sharp Piece of Awesome, After Tournier, Bareback Magazine and Bare Hands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot how jealousy<br \/>\nlooked on you &#8211;<\/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":[314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","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=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}