{"id":3599,"date":"2017-06-28T20:34:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T01:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=3599"},"modified":"2017-06-24T20:36:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T01:36:37","slug":"sara-pirkle-hughes-the-fire-next-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=3599","title":{"rendered":"Sara Pirkle Hughes &#8220;The Fire Next Door&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Sara Pirkle Hughes<\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Fire Next Door \u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The sound the house made<br \/>\nas fire spread its paws<br \/>\nthrough every room<br \/>\nwas like an old hound<br \/>\nstretching in his sleep, deep<br \/>\nsighs punctuated by growls, <\/p>\n<p>and being children, we watched,<br \/>\nwide-eyed, as flames licked<br \/>\ndawn\u2019s open palm,<br \/>\nand we laughed, looking<br \/>\nat the world\u2019s misery,<br \/>\nmistaking it for a pet. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Sara Pirkle Hughes<\/strong><\/span><em> is a Southern poet, an identical twin, a breast cancer survivor, and a <\/em>university<em> instructor.<a class=\"sbm-text link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.saraphughes.com\/\" target=\"linked\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.saraphughes.com\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sara Pirkle Hughes The Fire Next Door \u00a0 The sound the house made as fire spread its paws through every room was like an old hound stretching in his sleep, deep sighs punctuated by growls, and being children, we watched, wide-eyed, as flames licked dawn\u2019s open palm, and we laughed, looking at the world\u2019s misery, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[377],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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