{"id":368,"date":"2025-10-30T10:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2025-10-30T10:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:49:14","slug":"demon-lover-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/30\/demon-lover-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Demon Lover (poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Demon Lover<\/strong><br><br>It&#8217;s the season&#8217;s first frost tonight.<br>He&#8217;s never seen a more perfect you.<br>The chrysanthemums are done, the eggplant,<br>tomatoes, even the carrots and squash.<br>Does mist dampen his face, or grief?<br>The pull of a dark star counterbalances gravity.<br>You&#8217;re so light, you glide.<br>Your arms float up on their own.<br>You don&#8217;t mean to dance, but you do.<br>Not he. He&#8217;s heavy, his body presses<br>harder on the ground every moment,<br>crushed by want. He holds hands<br>with an absence, murmurs to a silence<br>shaped like you. He might not make it.<br>Do you mean to be happy now?<br>Do you mean to make him weep tears of blood?<br>Some moonflowers hold doomed buds.<br>Don&#8217;t you need to be needed?<br><br><em>\u2014 Bryant Jacobi<\/em><br><em>10\/30\/25<\/em><br><br><em>Halloween Day 30<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the season&#8217;s first frost tonight. \/ He&#8217;s never seen a more perfect you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7],"tags":[34,35,10],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-2025","category-poetry","tag-halloween","tag-halloween-2025","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}