{"id":3169,"date":"2018-07-13T16:58:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T23:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3169"},"modified":"2018-07-16T19:45:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T02:45:53","slug":"the-golden-thread-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2018\/07\/13\/the-golden-thread-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Thread Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhat is that? I can\u2019t see. Some sweet jungle flower. Are we getting close?”<\/p>\n

“No, it is poetry, a copycat fragrance to lure butterflies. It is carnivorous. Stay back\u2014”<\/p>\n

“Those are my words on the vines! God, those electric blue letters! Let\u2019s read\u2014”<\/p>\n

“Don\u2019t\u2014”<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy? ‘Once upon a time I died. I crucified myself on a ladder made from the bones of birds, hollow, not yet cleaned by cannibals or the sun, yet flightworthy by nature.’ I wrote that.”<\/p>\n

\u201cThe vines will strangle you, make you blind, make you forget why you are here. And then you drop the thread.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

From Guest Contributor Brook Bhagat<\/p>\n

Brook\u2019s poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and humor have appeared in Empty Mirror Magazine, Little India, D\u0103mf\u012bno, Nowhere Poetry, Rat’s Ass Review, Peacock Journal, A Story in 100 Words, Anthem: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen, and other journals and anthologies, and are forthcoming in MoonPark Review and Almagre. She has completed a full-length poetry manuscript, is writing a novel, and is editor-in-chief of Blue Planet Journal. She holds an MFA from Lindenwood University and teaches creative writing at a community college. More at brook-bhagat.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhat is that? I can\u2019t see. Some sweet jungle flower. Are we getting close?” “No, it is poetry, a copycat fragrance to lure butterflies. It is carnivorous. Stay back\u2014” “Those are my words on the vines! God, those electric blue letters! Let\u2019s read\u2014” “Don\u2019t\u2014” \u201cWhy? ‘Once upon a time I died. I crucified myself on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1180,2751,4499,943,7095,7094,7092,295,4155,7093,108,41,7065,6051,3284,3744,4731,6970,1531,7067,5053],"class_list":["post-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-birds","tag-bones","tag-brook-bhagat","tag-butterflies","tag-cannibals","tag-carnivorous","tag-copycat","tag-death","tag-flower","tag-fragrance","tag-god","tag-guest-contributor","tag-jungle","tag-ladder","tag-letters","tag-nature","tag-poetry","tag-series","tag-sun","tag-thread","tag-vines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3170,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions\/3170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}