{"id":2419,"date":"2026-08-15T05:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T05:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2026-08-30T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T13:44:00","slug":"soulular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=2419","title":{"rendered":"Soulular"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Portland skies reach up to the exosphere; the ceiling does not exist.
Sunshine lands upon every surface, a gentle warming hug.
Just shy of noon on a Friday, a summer vacation escape.
A Granny Smith apple-crisp day of fifty-five percent humidity 
\u2014 and seventy-eight degrees Fahrenheit \u2014
enables outdoor revelry not experienced at home.
A different planet than the swampy grey of August in the District, 
where we breaststroke through our soaked cotton ball air, not the Potomac.
It's the type of day where I can breathe in and out without wheezing, 
draw atmosphere into my lungs, feel oxygen molecules 
infuse my blood without obstacle or malice, 
like at home where every outdoor venture is a recipe for shortness of breath.
This day opens up and welcomes, nudges me into the light.
I unfold my limbs, imaginary solar panels, recharging under cloudless azure.
The sun fashions me an invisible banana bag IV, replenishing me at the soulular level.



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\u201cSoulular,\u201d an ode to the life-renewing temperature and humidity conditions of a Maine August day, written Saturday, August 15, 2026 poem 227 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo: “Portland Head Light Against Blue Sky,”  by Diana Ludwick \u00a9 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1572,2,776,2353],"tags":[2382,2184,2391,2379,2380,2384,2387,2383,2381,2376,1838,2386,1338,2378,2389,1070,2356,2375,858,2390,2377,134,2388,2354,2385],"class_list":["post-2419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-of-place","category-poems","category-short-form-musings","category-travel","tag-apple-crisp","tag-august","tag-banana-bag-iv","tag-blood","tag-breaststroke","tag-breathe","tag-ceiling","tag-fahrenheit","tag-granny-smith-apple","tag-high-noon","tag-high-summer","tag-hug","tag-humidity","tag-molecules","tag-outdoor","tag-oxygen","tag-portland","tag-portland-head-light","tag-potomac","tag-solar-panels","tag-soulular","tag-summer","tag-sunshine","tag-the-district","tag-wheezing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419","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=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2568,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions\/2568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}