{"id":10537,"date":"2025-07-27T12:40:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T17:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithhopeandfiction.com\/content\/?p=10537"},"modified":"2025-07-27T12:40:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T17:40:36","slug":"traces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithhopeandfiction.com\/content\/traces\/","title":{"rendered":"Traces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-\"><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/faithhopeandfiction.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/traces.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithhopeandfiction.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/traces.jpg 640w, https:\/\/faithhopeandfiction.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/traces-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithhopeandfiction.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/traces-370x278.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-by-sj-harrold\"><strong>By SJ Harrold<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>when light peeked over the horizon<br \/>she bade the ocean swell<br \/>to birth a million shimmering diamonds<br \/>brightening my course in the fading darkness<br \/>I strolled placidly alongside the spectacle<br \/>my bare feet enveloped in her moist silty skin<br \/>that tugged on my every step<br \/>steeped in gratitude for this moment<br \/>I paused and turned about<br \/>to regard the tracks from her healing clasp<br \/>gentle surf lapped the shore<br \/>swallowing up what was left behind<br \/>the sole proof I was ever there<br \/>which mattered only to us<br \/><br \/><em>SJ Harrold is an attorney-at-law who resides on the North Shore of Massachusetts.<\/em><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By SJ Harrold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v15.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Traces | Faith Hope &amp; 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