{"id":3571,"date":"2025-08-25T16:17:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3571"},"modified":"2025-08-25T16:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:17:38","slug":"aghast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3571","title":{"rendered":"Aghast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4090-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4090-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3572\" style=\"width:444px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4090-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4090-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4090-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4090-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4090-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been aghast these many months<br \/>the months bunch up,\u00a0<br \/>like a patient upon a table<br \/>anesthetized,\u00a0<br \/>on half-burned grass,\u00a0<br \/>aghast again, at August\u2019s end<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So many months with broken breath,\u00a0<br \/>now snot rags, ragweed,<br \/>wheezing; the peeved grass,<br \/>having lost what was na\u00efve<br \/>also clotted in a sneeze<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but think, the patient, I, anesthetized,<br \/>might salvage breath for what\u2019s ahead<br \/>the ghast extending out in time\u00a0<br \/>to breathe, to lay a hand upon a head<br \/>to pay respect to a flattened bird<br \/>the breath to bike around its head<br \/>the rag we hold, so dear, to make it<br \/>last, to count no matter what<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been aghast these many monthsthe months bunch up,\u00a0like a patient upon a tableanesthetized,\u00a0on half-burned grass,\u00a0aghast again, at August\u2019s end So many months with broken breath,\u00a0now snot rags, ragweed,wheezing; the peeved grass,having lost what was na\u00efvealso clotted in a sneeze &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3571\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1665,1664,1663,138,1515,1662,200],"class_list":["post-3571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fever","tag-hayfever","tag-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock","tag-poetry","tag-politics","tag-summers-end","tag-t-s-eliot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4D5qU-aghast","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3573,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions\/3573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}