{"id":53726,"date":"2019-06-22T20:57:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T00:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=53726"},"modified":"2019-06-22T20:57:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T00:57:10","slug":"last-prompt-for-a-half-marathoner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/last-prompt-for-a-half-marathoner\/","title":{"rendered":"Last prompt for a half-marathoner&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Melting of Molly by Maria Thompson Davies<br \/>\n(an erasure poem)<\/p>\n<p>Melting Molly<br \/>\n________________________<\/p>\n<p>Twenty<br \/>\nand full \u2013<br \/>\nand nobody<br \/>\ndid anything for me <\/p>\n<p>tying<br \/>\nup a dancing, frolicking<br \/>\ncolt of a girl<br \/>\nwith a ponderous bridle \u2013<\/p>\n<p>God<br \/>\ndidn\u2019t see me, and not caring<br \/>\nwhat happened to me<br \/>\nin this world<\/p>\n<p>He<br \/>\nput me out<br \/>\nfor contempt<br \/>\nof court.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\ntown didn\u2019t<br \/>\nmean anything by<br \/>\nchastening my spirit \u2013<\/p>\n<p>of<br \/>\nthat, I feel sure.<br \/>\nIt settled itself<br \/>\nhere in a valley<\/p>\n<p>a<br \/>\nfew hundreds of<br \/>\nyears ago and has been<br \/>\nclucking over its<\/p>\n<p>affairs<br \/>\never since.<br \/>\nThe houses set<br \/>\nback with their<\/p>\n<p>wings<br \/>\nspread out and<br \/>\nmothers go on<br \/>\nhovering even to the third<\/p>\n<p>generation.<br \/>\nYoung, long-legged<br \/>\nboys scramble out<br \/>\nof the nests<\/p>\n<p>and<br \/>\ndecide to grow up \u2013<br \/>\nwhere the crow<br \/>\nwill be heard<\/p>\n<p>by<br \/>\nthe world<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>one<br \/>\nof them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Melting of Molly by Maria Thompson Davies (an erasure poem) Melting Molly ________________________ Twenty and full \u2013 and nobody did anything for me tying up a dancing, frolicking colt of a girl with a ponderous bridle \u2013 God didn\u2019t see me, and not caring&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53726","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\/1004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53741,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53726\/revisions\/53741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}