{"id":128744,"date":"2023-09-02T11:10:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128744"},"modified":"2023-09-02T11:51:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:51:20","slug":"iii-some-days-a-potter-some-days-a-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/iii-some-days-a-potter-some-days-a-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"III. Some Days, Pottery; Some Days Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">Some Days, a Potter; Some Days a Poet<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">onto the wheel with a slap,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">intended to dispel<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">voids, air pockets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">deep massage,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">knead and fold,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">moisten and spin,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">splatter and twirl<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">bits under my nails<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">hand-shaped, molded, <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">smoothing the rough<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">cupping the weak,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">urging substance<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">into the voids<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">pinching,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">fettling,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">editing <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">excess<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">it is short,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">no stretch or give;<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">I either have to start again&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">or let it sit to dry as is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">With thanks to Tracy and to Debbie for their inspiration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Days, a Potter; Some Days a Poet onto the wheel with a slap, intended to dispel voids, air pockets. deep massage, knead and fold, moisten and spin, splatter and twirl bits under my nails hand-shaped, molded, smoothing the rough cupping the weak, urging substance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128744","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\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129306,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128744\/revisions\/129306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}