{"id":2935,"date":"2016-02-19T03:58:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T03:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2017-03-25T04:31:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T04:31:18","slug":"tourist-season-by-sarah-a-obrien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/tourist-season-by-sarah-a-obrien\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist Season by Sarah A. O\u2019Brien"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2936 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/sarahaobrien.jpg\" alt=\"sarahaobrien\" width=\"663\" height=\"425\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/sarahaobrien.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/sarahaobrien-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/sarahaobrien-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/sarahaobrien-624x400.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 663px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 663\/425;\" \/><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Tourist Season<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by\u00a0Sarah A. O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">we watch armies of retreating fiddler crabs<br \/>\nwhile you refer to sand beneath our feet<br \/>\nas the \u201cgraveyard of the sea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>we debate the emotional lives of canines,<br \/>\nand cruelties of keeping prairie dogs<br \/>\nlocked in china cabinets.<\/p>\n<p>we murmur sweet nothings that mean everything,<br \/>\nyour morning smile putting sunrise to shame,<br \/>\nclich\u00e9s tumbling from my smitten lips.<\/p>\n<p>we drive despite eyes half-mast,<br \/>\n\u201cyou\u2019re my world,\u201d you proclaim,<br \/>\nhanding me our mangled umbrella.<\/p>\n<p>we race to make the bus, but then,<br \/>\nbeating it there, you decide instead<br \/>\nto hold me in your arms another night.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Tourist Season was originally published in <em>Ghost City Review.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sarah A. O\u2019Brien enjoys dark chocolate and light wordplay. Sarah\u2019s work has previously appeared in T<em>he Alembic, Every Writer, The Screech Owl, Snapping Twig, Ampersand Literary, Third Point Press, Unbroken Journal, Random Sample<\/em> and is forthcoming in <em>Allegro Poetry Magazine<\/em>. Follow her adventures: @fluent_SARAcasm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah A. O\u2019Brien enjoys dark chocolate and light wordplay. Sarah\u2019s work has previously appeared in The Alembic, Every Writer, The Screech Owl, Snapping Twig<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2936,"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":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","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=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}