{"id":378,"date":"2024-03-05T23:17:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T23:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/reverie\/"},"modified":"2024-03-05T23:17:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T23:17:08","slug":"reverie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/2024\/03\/05\/reverie\/","title":{"rendered":"Reverie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lady bug strolls across the top of my computer monitor.<br \/>\nI can\u2019t tell if its pronouns are she\/her or he\/him.<br \/>\nMaybe it took gender studies in college, and it\u2019s nonbinary.<br \/>\nGnats flail in vain against my apartment window screens;<br \/>\nI imagine a few hot-headed ones are swearing.<br \/>\nA red-bellied woodpecker taps a tune on a nearby tree outside.<br \/>\nI think it\u2019s an oldie, maybe Knock on Wood from 66 by Eddy Floyd.<br \/>\nThe guppies in my aquarium swim happily going nowhere.<br \/>\nI think they\u2019re hedonists living for today partying the night away.<br \/>\nThe ceiling fan spins like a planet rotating in the cosmos;<br \/>\nI imagine an asteroid striking it and blasting it out of orbit.<br \/>\nIn a reverie I find myself thinking of how in a perfect world<br \/>\nI would have been with the sweet looking, sweet sounding<br \/>\nwoman who sang <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vpFfjWdhROU\">It\u2019s Gonna Take a Lotta Love<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lady bug strolls across the top of my computer monitor. I can\u2019t tell if its pronouns are she\/her or he\/him. Maybe it took gender studies in college, and it\u2019s nonbinary. Gnats flail in vain against my apartment window screens; I imagine a few hot-headed ones are swearing. A red-bellied woodpecker taps a tune on&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/2024\/03\/05\/reverie\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[304,449],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pm","tag-its-gonna-take-a-lotta-love","tag-reverie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}