{"id":2234,"date":"2014-05-06T02:35:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T02:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2017-07-11T03:31:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T03:31:12","slug":"skeleton-by-katie-booms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/skeleton-by-katie-booms\/","title":{"rendered":"Skeleton by Katie Booms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Skeleton<\/h1>\n

by Katie Booms<\/p>\n

For years, it was a dinosaur
\nsitting in the big open room of our barn,
\nall sprawling shoulder and radials,
\nbold and gaunt, bare caverns and organs,
\nand we ignored it, except each winter
\nwhen a wagon had to be backed in to shelter,
\nor spring, when we remembered standing there,
\nshooting basketballs at the net nailed to the hay loft.
\nThen, it was impractically large, slow-moving,
\nbound for extinction.<\/p>\n

###<\/p>\n

Katie Booms is a writer, visual artist, and advocate for community-building. She welcomes collaboration of all kinds and can be found on Twitter as @ka_booms. She earned her MFA at the University of Wyoming, served for a year with AmeriCorps at the Freret Neighborhood Center in New Orleans and currently teaches at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, MI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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