{"id":2333,"date":"2026-08-05T12:48:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2026-08-05T12:48:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:48:39","slug":"galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=2333","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Dove grey light leaks in through blinds, storms brew.<br>Gravity pulls; atmospheric pressure holds me low, <br>fog to summer-warm asphalt.<br>August rain jingles on the roof like wet fairy bells.<br><br>Self-evicted from warm linens, descend cool stairs.<br>Welcomed by a rumbling fridge <br>\u2014 and its grumpy compressor \u2014<br>the consequences and monotony of adulthood beckon.<br><br>Before Wednesday takes full form, I seek an escape hatch.<br>Lost in constellations of bubble-bright stars, <br>I trace the milky way, the bands of exoplanets, and<br>trance-inducing nebulae swirling in my Cubano roast.<br><br>Soon I'll don my leader costume and settle, rigid and rational.<br>In the waning moments of freedom, jostled by the thrum of a nearby appliance <br>that could just as well be an interstellar propulsion system,<br>I glide through the velvet beyond, incrementally absorbing energy.<br>Breaststroking through crema spheres and creamy belts of luminous java,<br>I plunge deep, swimming through this glistening galaxy for one.<br><br>Having toured the universe, if ever briefly,<br>I can land bravely, surely;<br>launch into my day, buoyed by magic <br>and the wonder harvested from a great expanse.<br><br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGalaxy,\u201d a pre-work day insterstellar journey for one, written Wednesday, August 05, 2026 poem 217 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo: &#8220;Glistening Galaxy,&#8221; By Diana Ludwick \u00a9 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,2220,776,1],"tags":[2231,2224,2184,2225,106,2229,2222,1370,2227,2223,626,2226,1838,996,77,2228,2230,633,2061,134,1672,514,1156,628,2221],"class_list":["post-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-poems","category-runaway-imagination","category-short-form-musings","category-uncategorized","tag-adulthood","tag-asphalt","tag-august","tag-breaststroking","tag-coffee","tag-consequences","tag-cubano-roast","tag-dove","tag-exoplanets","tag-fridge","tag-galaxy","tag-harvested","tag-high-summer","tag-interstellar","tag-magic","tag-milky-way","tag-monotony","tag-stars","tag-storms","tag-summer","tag-summer-rain","tag-universe","tag-wednesday","tag-wonder","tag-workday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2338,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions\/2338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}