{"id":1212,"date":"2007-07-12T06:13:32","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T11:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/writings\/2007\/07\/12\/46\/"},"modified":"2007-07-12T06:13:32","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T11:13:32","slug":"46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2007\/07\/46\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I dance with my shadow again &#8211;<br \/>\nthinking of you . . .<br \/>\nwanting to pull you close,<br \/>\nand hold you near.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an odd feeling<br \/>\nwhen your memory fills me;<br \/>\npushing me down into depression,<br \/>\nswimmingly mad.<\/p>\n<p>I smile &amp; turn again<br \/>\nwith my shadow &#8211;<br \/>\ndance floor swirls beneath myselves<br \/>\n. . . shadows changing shape.<\/p>\n<p>I swim back up &amp;<br \/>\nclimb out of the churning waters;<br \/>\nshake myself off<br \/>\nand head on my way.<\/p>\n<p>Walk down memory lane,<br \/>\npainful jaunt again &#8211;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s worth the dance with<br \/>\nmy shadow &#8211; to see your smile again.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">dedicated to Carrie Strelecky<br \/>\nwil becker<br \/>\n1996.07.14\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/us\/\" rel=\"license\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/images\/public\/somerights20.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dance with my shadow again &#8211; thinking of you . . . wanting to pull you close, and hold you near. It&#8217;s an odd feeling when your memory fills me; pushing me down into depression, swimmingly mad. I smile &amp; turn again with my shadow &#8211; dance floor swirls beneath myselves . . . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}