{"id":6016,"date":"2026-04-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/?p=6016"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:08:21","slug":"moonlit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/moonlit\/","title":{"rendered":"Moonlit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><br>I think this<br>is the life I wanted <br>               all that time, the one that held itself<br><br>away from me while I kept choosing<br>lovely cups and creatures, circus-like <br>               and therefore real <br><br>in all their shining. A man at the meeting <br>says at least today I\u2019m not doing anything <br>               that\u2019s killing me \u2013 I think, apart from living \u2013 <br><br>yes, this is the life <br>I wanted, <br>               suddenly livable and<br><br>sometimes lived. <br>Even when its shape is distant, this life feels closer<br>               than the walk home from the shift <br><br>trying to not stop at the corner <br>to do anything other than turn <br>               myself out for the rest of the evening \u2013 <br><br>walking to the end of the road <br>I make myself turn <br>               in the direction <br><br>of the house <br>where I go inside <br>               where I am not at the end <br><br>of a park\u2019s shadow, looking up at a bruised moon in the sky <br>and down at a baggie appeared in my palm thinking<br>               the two were the same.<br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think thisis the life I wanted all that time, the one that held itselfaway from me while I kept choosinglovely cups and creatures, circus-like and therefore real in all their shining. A man at the meeting says at least today I\u2019m not doing anything that\u2019s killing me \u2013 I think, apart from living \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"art_contributors":[],"literary_contributors":[461],"class_list":["post-6016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","literary_contributors-passantino-paige"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6019,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016\/revisions\/6019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6016"},{"taxonomy":"art_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/art_contributors?post=6016"},{"taxonomy":"literary_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_contributors?post=6016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}