{"id":18,"date":"2024-12-10T14:57:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T14:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meaghanvandyke.com\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2024-12-10T22:27:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T22:27:37","slug":"june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meaghanvandyke.com\/blog\/poetry\/june\/","title":{"rendered":"June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/meaghanvandyke.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_1559-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Reeds blow in the wind right beside the ocean while the sunsets\" class=\"wp-image-19\" style=\"width:258px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meaghanvandyke.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_1559-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/meaghanvandyke.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_1559-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/meaghanvandyke.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_1559-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/meaghanvandyke.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_1559-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/meaghanvandyke.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_1559-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by Meaghan Van Dyke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When June calls in yellow dresses and unheard messages collecting on the machine,<br>I answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And when the afternoon sun gets to be too much I hang the phone back on the receiver and sign my name on the checks tacked to the refrigerator,<br>Threatening to follow the dotted yellow lines until they end somewhere calmer-<br>Somewhere with a big yard and a tree that kisses kitchen windows for June to hide from the sun under.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A longing for domesticity draws the nights out slow and sweet like honey,<br>A need for a home and a place to rest my head and wake with it not clouded.<br>Not sure why the hands that washed me fail to be gentle towards me now,<br>Not sure why the kitchen sink basin won\u2019t carry away the sins that callous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I wake dreaming of motherhood next,<br>It will be June again<br>Who hangs my youth out on clothespins to dry<br>In the soft dance of the early morning sun through the leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will meet her when I know the answers to questions that weigh down my mind and make my hands feel heavy to hold,<br>When the painted mirrors feel familiar to us again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When June calls in yellow dresses and unheard messages collecting on the machine,I answer. And when the afternoon sun gets to be too much I hang the phone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meaghanvandyke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meaghanvandyke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meaghanvandyke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meaghanvandyke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meaghanvandyke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meaghanvandyke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/meaghanvandyke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meaghanvandyke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meaghanvandyke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meaghanvandyke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}