{"id":2248,"date":"2014-05-18T15:20:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T15:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2248"},"modified":"2017-07-12T00:43:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T00:43:06","slug":"ways-of-speaking-by-laura-grace-weldon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/ways-of-speaking-by-laura-grace-weldon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ways of Speaking by Laura Grace Weldon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Weldon\"<\/a><\/h2>\n

Ways of Speaking<\/h2>\n

by Laura Grace Weldon<\/p>\n

I\u2019m weary of those who talk
\nin slogans stamped and packed
\nby someone else, like
\nlong distance truckers paid to drive
\nwithout knowing the weight
\nhauled onto that dark highway.<\/p>\n

I want to walk, instead
\nwhere I can read the body\u2019s slow knowing.
\nWhere each thing watched long speaks aloud.<\/p>\n

A spider tossed by the breeze casts
\none strand thin as faith. As it takes hold
\nshe dances between twigs and waits
\nwithin a design both beginning and end.
\nWhen the web breaks she starts again
\ntiny legs speaking in ways
\nwe\u2019re meant to hear.<\/p>\n

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\nLaura Grace Weldon lives on Bit of Earth Farm where she’s an editor, nonviolence educator, and marginally useful farm wench. She’s the author of a poetry collection titled\u00a0<\/span>Tending<\/a><\/i>\u00a0(Aldrich Press, 2013) and a handbook of alternative education,\u00a0<\/span>Free Range Learning<\/a><\/i>. Although she has deadlines to meet, she’s more likely to be hiking in inclement weather or nattering on her\u00a0<\/span>blog.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ways of Speaking by Laura Grace Weldon I\u2019m weary of those who talk in slogans stamped and packed by someone else, like long distance truckers paid to drive without knowing the weight hauled onto that dark highway. I want to walk, instead where I can read the body\u2019s slow knowing. Where each thing watched long…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems-about-poetry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t