The Sweetness of Vinegar
\ncredit to:The Vinegar Man by Ruth Comfort Mitchell<\/p>\n
Thank you Miss Collins, my poetry muse,
\nyour old legs bowed, with fist
\npounding out each poem’s rhythm upon your brittle hip.<\/p>\n
making us stand, alone, to recite from memory my seventh grade mind impervious to death’s approach or loss of true love We were your children and poetry your gift to us. The Sweetness of Vinegar credit to:The Vinegar Man by Ruth Comfort Mitchell Thank you Miss Collins, my poetry muse, your old legs bowed, with fist pounding out each poem’s rhythm upon your brittle hip. making us stand, alone, to recite from memory Vinegar, vinegar, vinegar…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2907,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112188,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111781\/revisions\/112188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nVinegar, vinegar, vinegar man,
\nface us and chase us and catch if you can<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Annabel Lee and The Raven, all
\netched into my memory forever.<\/p>\n
\nLong live the balladeer, the seed you planted within me.
\nI humbly thank you venerable teacher of words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"