{"id":9826,"date":"2017-10-23T00:43:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T00:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=9826"},"modified":"2017-10-23T19:45:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T19:45:27","slug":"laura-rodley-finally-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2017\/10\/laura-rodley-finally-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Rodley “Finally Home”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally Home<\/strong><\/p>\n

She hangs straight down
\nfeelers embedded in the
\ncomfrey\u2019s pale purple cup
\nsipping on summer nectar
\nas through returning to the cocoon
\nfrom which she emerged
\nat early fall\u2019s late dawn,
\nwings flat as though
\nstill drying, perfect
\nin symmetry and comfort
\nto the eye.
\nThere too, her partner in nectar,
\nthe hummingbird dips
\nher long tongue into comfrey\u2019s
\nbells, silent clappers,
\nand into the mouth of jewelweed,
\nnature\u2019s own uncultured orchid,
\norange, bountiful, pulled up
\nby others as weeds
\nalong with milkweed.
\nThe monarch releases
\nher legs and tongue,
\ntakes a bow below the comfrey\u2019s
\npale purple bells,
\nzings through air
\nfirst dampened by
\nthe hummingbird\u2019s wings,
\nher ceaseless stirring.<\/p>\n

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

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\u00a9 Laura Rodley, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\u00a9<\/a>
\u00a9 Laura Rodley, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thank-you Laura Rodley<\/strong> for sharing your work!<\/p>\n

A generous and frequent contributor here, Laura Rodley<\/strong> writes for Country Folks<\/em><\/strong> about “Farmer Purdy,”<\/strong><\/a> the anuual Franklin County 4-H Fair,<\/a> and other wonderful subjects.<\/p>\n

She has two books of poetry forthcoming: Counter Point<\/em><\/strong> (Prolific Press) and Turn Left at Normal<\/strong><\/em> (BIG TABLE Publishing).<\/p>\n

Two chapbooks by Laura have been published by Finishing Line Press<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Finally Home She hangs straight down feelers embedded in the comfrey\u2019s pale purple cup sipping on summer nectar as through returning to the cocoon from which she emerged at early fall\u2019s late dawn, wings flat as though still drying, perfect in symmetry and comfort to the eye. There too, her partner in nectar, the hummingbird […]<\/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":[3388,3386,127,12,3384,3385,3387,39,13,7,16,32],"class_list":{"0":"post-9826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-guest-posts","7":"tag-finally-home","8":"tag-butterfly","9":"tag-contributors-2","10":"tag-ellen-wade-beals","11":"tag-laura-rodlley","12":"tag-monarch-butterfly","13":"tag-nature-poem","14":"tag-photography","15":"tag-poetry","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\/9826","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=9826"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9837,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9826\/revisions\/9837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}