{"id":2271,"date":"2014-06-19T04:13:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T04:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2271"},"modified":"2017-07-12T01:49:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T01:49:36","slug":"beating-the-devil-by-jean-varda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/beating-the-devil-by-jean-varda\/","title":{"rendered":"Beating the Devil by Jean Varda"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Beating the Devil<\/h1>\n

by Jean Varda<\/p>\n

I beat the devil last night
\nshe said fighting for her life
\nHe was right there in the room
\nwith me. I slammed all the
\ndoors and windows of myself
\nclosed. I willed my heart to
\nkeep beating. My lungs to
\nsuck in air. I am not ready yet.
\nThough my heart is blocked and
\nleaking. My kidneys have failed
\nand my body lies here pale and
\ntired. I want to always see the
\nbeauty of a rose and my little dog
\nwatching for me from the window.
\nI want to climb again the hills of
\nSan Francisco with my grandson.
\nThe place I am from. And my
\ngranddaughter I love her with
\nall my heart. I have opened all
\nthe doors and windows of myself
\nto let the air rush in.<\/p>\n

###<\/p>\n

Jean Varda\u2019s poetry has appeared in: The California Quarterly, The Berkeley Poetry Review, The Lucid Stone, Poetry Motel, The Santa Fe Sun, Avocet A Journal of Nature Poetry, River Poets Journal and Prompt online literary magazine. She has published 5 chapbooks of poetry, most recently, \u201cShe Was Attached To Symmetry”, by Sacred Feather Press. Her poem \u201cSister Morphine\u201d that appeared in \u201cRed River Review\u201d was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Portland,Or.where she works as a collage artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beating the Devil by Jean Varda I beat the devil last night she said fighting for her life He was right there in the room with me. I slammed all the doors and windows of myself closed. I willed my heart to keep beating. My lungs to suck in air. I am not ready yet….<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}