{"id":1635,"date":"2025-10-26T16:36:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2025-11-17T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:51:00","slug":"i-hope-this-email-never-finds-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/26\/i-hope-this-email-never-finds-you\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hope This Email Never Finds You"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I hope this email does not find you well.<br \/>\nI hope this email does not find you<br \/>\nAnd instead arrives to a desk overgrown with moss,<br \/>\nLit quietly by a shard of light through your collapsed apartment ceiling<br \/>\nAnd that the silence that it finds there is simply deafening.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this email does not find you<br \/>\nAnd that it goes around the corner to your kitchen<br \/>\nWhere your discarded dishes stand like lichened towers,<br \/>\nAnd that it will not find you staring into the refrigerator<br \/>\nSaying \u201cThere\u2019s nothing to eat,\u201d to the bread and eggs and strawberries \u2013 long gone.<br \/>\nI hope that you are nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this email does not find you<br \/>\nScouring the bathtub, dusting cobwebs out of cupboards.<br \/>\nI hope the ivy has taken over the couch<br \/>\nAnd surrounded all the cushions, blanketed the armrests.<br \/>\nI hope that birds are nesting in your wifi router<br \/>\nAnd that a family of squirrels has made a home in your utensil drawer.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this email does not find you<br \/>\nBecause you are far away and doing something gorgeous,<br \/>\nAnd that you haven\u2019t given me a second thought.<br \/>\nI hope this email never finds you.<br \/>\nI hope this email never catches up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>I Hope This Email Never Finds You<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/anna-stacy.squarespace.com\/\">Anna Stacy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/apricitymagazine.com\/portfolio\/i-hope-this-email-never-finds-you\/\">Apricity Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope this email does not find you well. I hope this email does not find you And instead arrives to a desk overgrown with moss, Lit quietly by a shard of light through your collapsed apartment ceiling And that the silence that it finds there is simply deafening. I hope this email does not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alleviivattua","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}