{"id":54842,"date":"2019-06-22T23:50:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T03:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=54842"},"modified":"2019-06-24T12:49:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T16:49:54","slug":"poem-16-what-can-you-do-with-formless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/poem-16-what-can-you-do-with-formless\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 16 &#8220;What Can You Do with Formless?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What Can You Do with Formless?&#8221;\u00a0 by Mandy Austin Cook<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>what do you do with formless?<\/div>\n<div>you find a clean canvas<\/div>\n<div>knowledgeable hands caressing clay<\/div>\n<div>with a love that an artist can understand.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>it&#8217;s a beautiful work<\/div>\n<div>molding clay<\/div>\n<div>forming earth into a shape that is recognizable.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>your own image stamps it<\/div>\n<div>that would happen naturally as you work<\/div>\n<div>because the clay takes a while<\/div>\n<div>to warm in the hands,<\/div>\n<div>to find its response.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>it takes its own shape in time<\/div>\n<div>into the delicate detail of the world<\/div>\n<div>soft supple earth<\/div>\n<div>rough ridges of tree bark<\/div>\n<div>delicately paintbrush- touched drops<\/div>\n<div>of leafy dewey green&#8230;&#8230;..<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>what an intricate personal work that is<\/div>\n<div>the Artist and the clay.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>what a beautiful thing &#8211; to look around at nature and say<\/div>\n<div>what can you possibly do with formless?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Can You Do with Formless?&#8221;\u00a0 by Mandy Austin Cook what do you do with formless? you find a clean canvas knowledgeable hands caressing clay with a love that an artist can understand. it&#8217;s a beautiful work molding clay forming earth into a shape that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54842","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\/1301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58413,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54842\/revisions\/58413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}