{"id":9475,"date":"2017-02-09T20:32:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T20:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=9475"},"modified":"2017-02-10T22:35:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T22:35:45","slug":"laura-rodley-madelyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2017\/02\/laura-rodley-madelyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Rodley “Madelyn”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here in Chicago there is no snow on the ground, but some parts of the Northeast are experiencing a Snow Day. So that\u2019s why this poem by Laura Rodley<\/strong> about a runner in the snowy woods seems appropriate.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Laura Rodley<\/strong> for letting me share her work here.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Madelyn<\/strong><\/p>\n

She runs without breaking the crust of snow,
\nsnow two feet deep, slick with ice, even glows
\nin later sun but that\u2019s not when she runs,
\nher tracks lighter than deer who break through, shuns
\nthe main street, dirt though it may be, her dogs
\nrunning beside her- wolves in jest- the slogs
\nthrough the deep woods what they all were born for,
\nthe quiet, the pines, granite slick, the firs,
\neach mile a link towards the future, a fast
\nof color breaking through, soft mists rising
\nor snow still falling, a quilt now sizing
\nthe path before her, where coyotes pass.
\nShe runs here daily, holds on, makes it last.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Laura Rodley, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Laura Rodley\u2019s<\/strong> work has been nominated numerous times for the Pushcart Prize<\/strong> and Best of Net<\/strong> anthologies. In 2013 Laura was awarded the Pushcart Prize<\/strong> for her poem \u201cResurrection,\u201d<\/strong> <\/a>which originally appeared in The New Verse News<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

She has two chapbooks from Finishing Line Press: Your Left Front Wheel is Coming Loose<\/strong><\/em>, which Finishing Line nominated for a PEN L.L.Winship Award, and Rappelling Blue Light,<\/em><\/strong> which was a Massachusetts Book Award nominee.<\/p>\n

Former co-curator of the Collected Poets Series, Laura teaches As You Write It classes; she has edited and published As You Write It, A Franklin County Anthology<\/em><\/strong> volumes I-V, which was nominated for a Massachusetts Book Award. She has also been featured reader at Greenfield Word Festival<\/strong> since its conception.<\/p>\n

She is also a free lance writer. You can read her latest stories “Farming is a family affair: 30th Annual NOFA MASS Winter Conference\u201d<\/strong><\/a> and \u201cMaple Mama Craft Spritzers\u201d<\/strong><\/a> at Country Folks<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Thanks again to Laura Rodley.\u00a0 <\/strong>If you have work to share, send it to weighedwords at gmail.com. <\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Snow<\/a>
Snow trail, #1 \u00a9 Ellen Wade Beals, 2013<\/dd>\n
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\"Snow<\/a>
Snow trail, #2 \u00a9 Ellen Wade Beals, 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here in Chicago there is no snow on the ground, but some parts of the Northeast are experiencing a Snow Day. So that\u2019s why this poem by Laura Rodley about a runner in the snowy woods seems appropriate. Thanks to Laura Rodley for letting me share her work here.   Madelyn She runs without breaking […]<\/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":[3171,127,12,209,205,13,3173,3172,3174,7,16,32],"class_list":{"0":"post-9475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-guest-posts","7":"tag-madelyn","8":"tag-contributors-2","9":"tag-ellen-wade-beals","10":"tag-finishing-line-press","11":"tag-laura-rodley","12":"tag-poetry","13":"tag-running-in-snow","14":"tag-running-in-winter","15":"tag-snow-day","16":"tag-solace","17":"tag-solace-in-so-many-words","18":"tag-weighed-words","19":"entry","20":"has-post-thumbnail"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9475","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=9475"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9484,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9475\/revisions\/9484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}