{"id":95,"date":"2015-05-03T00:31:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T00:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walraventales.com\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2015-08-10T01:45:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T01:45:21","slug":"the-black-hole-behind-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ryanwalraven.com\/blog\/the-black-hole-behind-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Hole Behind Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">by Ryan Walraven<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A black hole trails behind me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">a dormant shadow from my past.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It smells of dust and empty spaces<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">and sounds like post movie silence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In its wake, all ruins are devoured,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">the mess of my bedroom floor<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>turned to carpet,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">old books and papers gone dry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Photos and posters turn blank,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">like the last page of a book<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">which no one will ever read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Its radiation pierces flesh,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> seals old wounds with ultraviolet precision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The event horizon swells around me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">a black envelope of air-conditioned space<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">where deep within some hint of memory still resides<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">never to be seen again.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\u00a9 Ryan Walraven 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ryan Walraven A black hole trails behind me, a dormant shadow from my past. It smells of dust and empty spaces and sounds like post movie silence.\u00a0 In its wake, all ruins are devoured, the mess of my bedroom floor\u00a0turned to carpet, old books and papers gone dry. Photos\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ryanwalraven.com\/blog\/the-black-hole-behind-me\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ryanwalraven.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ryanwalraven.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ryanwalraven.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ryanwalraven.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ryanwalraven.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ryanwalraven.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/www.ryanwalraven.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ryanwalraven.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ryanwalraven.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ryanwalraven.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}