Hour 9, Prompt 9<\/p>\n
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January Tracks<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Come January when family\u2019s tire tracks are frozen in the drive<\/p>\n And the cookstove pumps its heat through his roughshod shack<\/p>\n Wind whistles lonely hollow along the edge of camp<\/p>\n And mem\u2019ries come quick on its melody\u2019s tail<\/p>\n Of all the decorations Ma took home in her boxes<\/p>\n The one she missed is sweetest and dearest<\/p>\n His room\u2019s bare bulb\u2019s light reflects off its red Avon glass<\/p>\n Alone on a shelf where garland recently draped,<\/p>\n Then obscuring the silver screw-on ball,<\/p>\n Now mirroring his image back to him<\/p>\n Imagining Ma with a touch of Sweet Honesty Cologne behind her ear<\/p>\n Sweetening the cinnamon spice bread pudding with which she filled his place<\/p>\n Just looking at this ornament left behind swirls<\/p>\n The scents of nutmeg and pine<\/p>\n Reminders of Ginny laughing at presents unwrapping<\/p>\n And Ma blushing at the extravagance he offered<\/p>\n In a box of cordials and bracelet of gold<\/p>\n That he\u2019d offer again just to see her smile<\/p>\n Before packing up Christmas and leaving frozen tracks in the drive<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hour 9, Prompt 9 January Tracks Come January when family\u2019s tire tracks are frozen in the drive And the cookstove pumps its heat through his roughshod shack Wind whistles lonely hollow along the edge of camp And mem\u2019ries come quick on its melody\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4906,5206,5209],"class_list":["post-113637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2022fullmarathon","tag-2022hour9","tag-2022hour9snowprompt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113637","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\/1426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113655,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113637\/revisions\/113655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}