{"id":6033,"date":"2014-01-28T19:38:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T19:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=6033"},"modified":"2014-01-29T21:17:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T21:17:00","slug":"laura-rodley-given","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2014\/01\/laura-rodley-given\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Rodley “Given”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Given<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I was given these two hands,<\/p>\n

these two feet; I was given them<\/p>\n

without asking and they are mine.<\/p>\n

With my feet on your body I do walk<\/p>\n

on frozen ground where coyotes step,<\/p>\n

fishers, raccoons, and quail.<\/p>\n

With my breath I inhale<\/p>\n

your sweet liquor, the cold snap<\/p>\n

of four degrees; how my lungs<\/p>\n

crave your air inside me,<\/p>\n

its green perfume, though now<\/p>\n

your body is slick with ice,<\/p>\n

hard with frost, tasting green<\/p>\n

though I must cover my mouth<\/p>\n

with a purple scarf to take you in.<\/p>\n

Each morning this is how I wake,<\/p>\n

with you upon my lips.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Laura Rodley \u00a9 2014<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pushcart Prize winner<\/strong> and nominated for Best of the Net five times, Laura Rodley <\/strong>has\u00a0work published in Best Indie Lit New England<\/em><\/strong>, Massachusetts Review<\/strong><\/em>, and Hunger Mountain<\/strong><\/em><\/a> among others.\u00a0 She is editor and publisher of As You Write It, A<\/em> Franklin County Anthology<\/em><\/strong>, a compilation of memoirs from seniors age 70 through 95. If this poem gives you a chill, check out Laura’s poem “Stifling Heat”<\/a> which was published last summer (July 17, 2013) at The New Verse News<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Laura Rodley\u2019s <\/strong>chapbook Rappelling Blue Light<\/em><\/strong>, a Massachusetts Book Award nominee, won honorable mention for the New England Poetry Society Jean Pedrick Award. Her second chapbook Your Left Front Wheel is Coming Loose<\/em> <\/strong>was also nominated for a Massachusetts Book Award and an L. L.Winship\/Penn New England Award.<\/p>\n

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Given   I was given these two hands, these two feet; I was given them without asking and they are mine. With my feet on your body I do walk on frozen ground where coyotes step, fishers, raccoons, and quail. With my breath I inhale your sweet liquor, the cold snap of four degrees; how […]<\/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":[1951,1954,1956,209,1953,352,205,1952,13,1916,1456,211,7,16,1955,1457,32,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-6033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-guest-posts","7":"tag-given","8":"tag-as-you-write-it","9":"tag-best-indie-lit-new-england","10":"tag-finishing-line-press","11":"tag-hunger-mountain","12":"tag-kathy-buckland","13":"tag-laura-rodley","14":"tag-massachusetts","15":"tag-poetry","16":"tag-polar-vortex","17":"tag-pushcart-prize-winner","18":"tag-rappelling-blue-light","19":"tag-solace","20":"tag-solace-in-so-many-words","21":"tag-stifling-heat","22":"tag-the-new-verse-news","23":"tag-weighed-words","24":"tag-your-left-front-wheel-is-coming-loose","25":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033","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=6033"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6074,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033\/revisions\/6074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}