{"id":10366,"date":"2019-08-30T18:46:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T18:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=10366"},"modified":"2019-08-30T18:46:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T18:46:21","slug":"new-poem-by-laura-rodley-the-pear-eaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2019\/08\/new-poem-by-laura-rodley-the-pear-eaters\/","title":{"rendered":"New poem by Laura Rodley: The Pear Eaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Pear Eaters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On raised legs the foxes slide their<br \/>\nincisors over hard green pears<br \/>\nsuspended on the stem, still so<br \/>\nfirmly attached they do not fall<br \/>\nto the ground to be finished off.<br \/>\nOthers fall, that foxes leave, having<br \/>\neaten carousels of bite-fulls,<br \/>\nleaving others to the groundhog.<br \/>\nI leave the incisored ones on the branch,<br \/>\nrescue those untouched to bring inside to ripen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a9 Laura Rodley, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10367\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10367\" style=\"width: 920px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10367\" src=\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_6132x-920x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"920\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_6132x-920x1024.jpg 920w, https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_6132x-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_6132x-768x854.jpg 768w, https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_6132x.jpg 1679w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pear Eaters \u00a9 Laura Rodley, 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10370\" src=\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/51kFUgncXL-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"260\" \/><strong>Laura Rodley<\/strong> is a Massachusetts poet whose latest books are <em><strong>Counter Point<\/strong><\/em> (Prolific Press) and <em><strong>Turn Left at Normal<\/strong><\/em> (Big Table Publishing). Her poem \u201cResurrection\u201d (published on <a href=\"https:\/\/newversenews.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/resurrection.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>New Verse News)<\/em><\/strong><\/a> appears in T<strong><em>he Pushcart Prize XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses<\/em><\/strong> (2013 edition).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10371\" src=\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Counter-Point-Cover-Front-194x300-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura Rodley<\/strong> teaches the As You Write It memoir class and has edited and published As You Write It, A Franklin County Anthology Volumes I-VI, which was nominated for a Mass Book Award.<\/p>\n<p>Just a week ago on August 23, <strong>Laura Rodley&#8217;s<\/strong> poem <a href=\"https:\/\/newversenews.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/you-dont.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;You Don&#8217;t&#8221; appeared in the New Verse News&#8211;follow the link to read it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pear Eaters On raised legs the foxes slide their incisors over hard green pears suspended on the stem, still so firmly attached they do not fall to the ground to be finished off. Others fall, that foxes leave, having eaten carousels of bite-fulls, leaving others to the groundhog. I leave the incisored ones on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,205,3463,39,13,7,16,1457,32],"class_list":{"0":"post-10366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-guest-posts","7":"tag-ellen-wade-beals","8":"tag-laura-rodley","9":"tag-massachusetts-poet-laura-rodley","10":"tag-photography","11":"tag-poetry","12":"tag-solace","13":"tag-solace-in-so-many-words","14":"tag-the-new-verse-news","15":"tag-weighed-words","16":"entry","17":"has-post-thumbnail"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10366"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10374,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366\/revisions\/10374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}