{"id":2487,"date":"2006-05-27T19:39:13","date_gmt":"2006-05-28T02:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:43:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:43:46","slug":"sensate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/05\/27\/sensate\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sensate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mid-night I rise to pee, my feet shocked<br \/>\nawake by chill tile, the cold making<br \/>\nmy arms like sandpaper.<\/p>\n<p>Then I return to the warm cocoon bed<br \/>\nnext to you, and melt again into sleep,<br \/>\ngrateful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve written nothing since mid-April, and I could not abide allowing May to pass without my writing something, however lame. <\/p>\n<p>My encounter with a poetry forum inhibited my willingness to play with words, made me overly conscious. While poetry is a difficult craft, something to become skilled at, this awareness made me  stop completely, rather than strive to improve. So here is a small poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sensate Mid-night I rise to pee, my feet shocked awake by chill tile, the cold making my arms like sandpaper. Then I return to the warm cocoon bed next to you, and melt again into sleep, grateful. &#8212; I&#8217;ve written nothing since mid-April, and I could not abide allowing May to pass without my writing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,28,16,215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aenigmas","category-humanities","category-nature","category-poetry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10346,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/10346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}