{"id":2238,"date":"2014-05-13T01:42:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T01:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2017-07-12T00:49:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T00:49:14","slug":"are-you-awake-by-steve-klepetar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/are-you-awake-by-steve-klepetar\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Awake? by Steve Klepetar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Steve-Klepetar1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2239 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Steve-Klepetar1.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Klepetar1\" width=\"219\" height=\"323\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Steve-Klepetar1.jpg 606w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Steve-Klepetar1-203x300.jpg 203w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 219px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 219\/323;\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Are You Awake?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by\u00a0Steve Klepetar<\/p>\n<p>Are you awake or climbing<br \/>\nthe rope ladder of some dream?<br \/>\nDark music plays here, old<br \/>\nas trickling water carving<br \/>\nlimestone into empty caves.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s where you lay your head,<br \/>\nwhere soft, brown hands may<br \/>\nwander through your gray<br \/>\nand thinning hair, where blood<br \/>\nrises past shame, breathing spikes<br \/>\nand air turns green as vision<br \/>\npenetrates this new light.<br \/>\nSomeone whispers a name<br \/>\nthat might have been yours.<br \/>\nIs it part of the song or a snaky<br \/>\nstring of words sliding along<br \/>\nyour neck?<br \/>\nEither way your skin prickles<br \/>\nthrough fog and sleepy haze<br \/>\nand your parched tongue burns.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Steve Klepetar\u2019s work has received several nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Recent collections include Speaking to the Field Mice (Sweatshoppe Publications, 2013), My Son Writes a Report on the Warsaw Ghetto (Flutter Press, 2013), and Return of the Bride of Frankenstein (forthcoming from Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Klepetar\u2019s work has received several nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Recent collections include Speaking to the Field Mice (Sweatshoppe Publications, 2013),<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2240,"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-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","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=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}