{"id":296,"date":"2010-04-07T14:17:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T21:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laurahershey.com\/?p=296"},"modified":"2010-04-07T14:17:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T21:17:28","slug":"poem-draft-until-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurahershey.com\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"Poem Draft: “Until the Day”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like some of my other writer friends, I’ve been mostly keeping up with the April 2010 Poem-A-Day Challenge, a feature of Robert Lee Brewer’s Poetic Asides blog<\/a>. Every day throughout the month, Brewer offers a writing prompt, an idea designed to spur creativity.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to post all the drafts I’ve generated over the past seven days, but I’ll post today’s. The assignment today was to “take the phrase ‘Until (blank),’ replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and write the poem.”<\/p>\n

So here’s my poem. Comments are welcome.<\/p>\n

Day 7: <\/strong>Until the Day<\/span><\/p>\n

(Inspired by, and dedicated to, Constance McMillan)<\/em><\/p>\n

Until the day
\nthe two girls in tuxedos
\nthe boy in the boa
\nthe girl who still loves Clifford
\nthe boy whose laughter leaks a glittering thread to the towel tucked in his collar
\nthe girl who writes fairytales with smart sarcastic animals
\nthe boy who envies the girls their brash reds purples pinks
\nthe girl who dances badly and so joyfully
\nthe boy who was a girl and the boy who will become a woman
\ncan all strut into flower-festooned gyms
\nsmile for years remembering this night
\nsee their truest selves in yearbooks<\/p>\n

Until that day
\nwe will all carry a sour burden of shame
\nheavy well water logging our crops’ roots<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like some of my other writer friends, I’ve been mostly keeping up with the April 2010 Poem-A-Day Challenge, a feature of Robert Lee Brewer’s Poetic Asides blog. Every day throughout the month, Brewer offers a writing prompt, an idea designed to spur creativity. I’m not going to post all the drafts I’ve generated over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[133,131,132],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-april-2010-poem-a-day-challenge","tag-constance-mcmillan","tag-poetry-about-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurahershey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurahershey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurahershey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurahershey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurahershey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/laurahershey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/laurahershey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurahershey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurahershey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurahershey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}