{"id":488,"date":"2025-09-11T12:14:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/?p=488"},"modified":"2025-09-11T12:14:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:14:25","slug":"anais-mitchell-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/archives\/488","title":{"rendered":"Ana\u00efs Mitchell, &#8220;Flowers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Flowers<br>by Ana\u00efs Mitchell, from <em>Hadestown<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[EURYDICE]<br>What I wanted was to fall asleep<br>Close my eyes and disappear<br>Like a petal on a stream, a feather on the air<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lily white and poppy red<br>I trembled when he laid me out<br>&#8220;You won&#8217;t feel a thing,&#8221; he said, &#8220;when you go down&#8221;<br>Nothing gonna wake you now<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dreams are sweet, until they&#8217;re not<br>Men are kind, until they aren&#8217;t<br>Flowers bloom, until they rot, and fall apart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is anybody listening?<br>I open my mouth and nothing comes out<br>Nothing, nothing gonna wake me now<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flowers, I remember fields of flowers<br>Soft beneath my heels<br>Walking in the sun, I remember someone<br>Someone by my side, turned his face to mine<br>And then I turned away, into the shade<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You, the one I left behind<br>If you ever walk this way<br>Come and find me lying in the bed I made<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flowersby Ana\u00efs Mitchell, from Hadestown [EURYDICE]What I wanted was to fall asleepClose my eyes and disappearLike a petal on a stream, a feather on the air Lily white and poppy redI trembled when he laid me out&#8220;You won&#8217;t feel a thing,&#8221; he said, &#8220;when you go down&#8221;Nothing gonna wake you now Dreams are sweet, until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}