{"id":2866,"date":"2026-10-03T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=2866"},"modified":"2026-11-01T16:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T16:23:17","slug":"soluble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=2866","title":{"rendered":"Soluble"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
She prowls through the floor, 
on the black boards atop ice laid away for hockey games, 
slinking in darkness, she goes unseen 
to those focused on the mega screen 
depicting changing seasons, 
the rippling wind in the field of flowers 
on the ear lobe-shaped stage, 
to the center of the arena, 
mounts a circular stage.
Olivia assumes the position, 
her climactic song at the ready, 
poised to garner screams in surround sound.
Lights beam on her, 
revealing location and intent; 
fans thunder around her, the guitars begin.
Unraveling, yet in control, 
she yields to the heavens above 
as programmed rain floods down upon her.
Before our eyes, 
her collared dress seeps heavy with water, 
tearing under its own weight, 
becoming silly string, then foam, then gone.
Left underneath, a striking red mini sheath, 
she rips at the remainder of her soluble overdress, 
shedding the dead skin of a deciduous relationship.
Exposing herself to us all, 
yet more powerful than ever, 
she emerges, stronger, changed, 
and I notice, can't help but see, 
that the light is back in her eyes.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cSoluble,\u201d an homage to the wit and artistry of a twenty-three-year-old songwriter, singer and musician, Olivia Rodrigo. Written Saturday, October 03, 2026 poem 276 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo: “Water Soluble, a photo of Olivia Rodrigo in her disintegrating tour dress, singing Unraveled under a rainfall,”  by Diana Ludwick \u00a9 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,311,1573,290,2519,1572,2],"tags":[3158,2975,2677,2981,2982,3164,2986,2984,3163,739,3070,142,3166,3162,2983,3161,220,13,399,91,1616,2209,2999,840,3167,2980,377,705,3160,362,3165,3159,2985,2978,796,3000,2979],"class_list":["post-2866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-generational","category-generational-of-place","category-homage","category-musical-arts","category-of-place","category-poems","tag-2026-poetry-challenge","tag-arena","tag-autumn","tag-begged","tag-cigarette-smoke","tag-deciduous","tag-dissolving-dress","tag-drivers-license","tag-failed","tag-fall","tag-floor","tag-flowers","tag-foam","tag-guitars","tag-happier","tag-hockey","tag-homage","tag-ice","tag-ladies-night-out","tag-music","tag-october","tag-olivia-rodrigo","tag-or","tag-poetry","tag-programmed","tag-purple","tag-relationship","tag-saturday","tag-screams","tag-seasons","tag-silly-sting","tag-soluble","tag-the-cure","tag-unraveled","tag-water","tag-water-soluble","tag-you-seem-pretty-sad-for-a-girl-so-in-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866","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=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2979,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions\/2979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}