{"id":2874,"date":"2016-01-20T03:18:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T03:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2017-07-11T21:14:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T21:14:43","slug":"artifacts-of-womanhood-by-lana-bella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/artifacts-of-womanhood-by-lana-bella\/","title":{"rendered":"ARTIFACTS OF WOMANHOOD by Lana Bella"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2783\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2783\" style=\"width: 453px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2783 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Deliberation-by-Mario-Sanchez-Nevado.jpg\" alt=\"Deliberation by Mario Sanchez Nevado\" width=\"453\" height=\"453\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Deliberation-by-Mario-Sanchez-Nevado.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Deliberation-by-Mario-Sanchez-Nevado-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Deliberation-by-Mario-Sanchez-Nevado-624x624.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 453px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 453\/453;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deliberation by Mario Sanchez Nevado<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">ARTIFACTS OF WOMANHOOD<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Lana Bella<\/p>\n<p>this body of sun and moon,<br \/>\na river of down-flow and shifting roots,<br \/>\nthis was my life where<br \/>\nswimming beneath the pelt of obsession<br \/>\nto taste the blistered, salted past<br \/>\nwas pressed into pockets of history,<\/p>\n<p>to be one of the enlightened<br \/>\nI must first retain the skin-traveled winters,<br \/>\nrise from hard clay summers<br \/>\nwith the things of greased feathers<br \/>\nscaled on my back,<br \/>\nI thought of that early parable when time dressed<br \/>\nin kindness<br \/>\nand mind grew fat<br \/>\nin the artifacts of womanhood&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>here I lay translating<br \/>\na blue-skinned future to a mercurial present,<br \/>\nand all the time I only hoped to empty<br \/>\nmyself from within,<br \/>\nlike a disease or grief,<br \/>\nlike a lousy weather over a downtrodden city,<\/p>\n<p>everything bent<br \/>\nto mimic the cellophane sweep<br \/>\nof the universe,<br \/>\nwith their long spines telescoping<br \/>\ntoward a single track wearing grooves over earth,<br \/>\nI stood once again, alone,<br \/>\nknowing in cross-ventilation of the now and then<br \/>\nthat vertiginously lingered and rescinded<br \/>\nthe reportage of my history<br \/>\nover and over,<br \/>\nat the same time&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>A Pushcart nominee, Lana has a diverse work of poetry and fiction published and forthcoming with over 140 journals, including a chapbook with Crisis Chronicles Press (spring 2016), <em>Ann Arbor Review, Chiron Review, Coe Review, Harbinger Asylum, Literary Orphans, Poetry Salzburg Review, Poetry Quarterly, QLRS (Singapore), Taj Mahal Review (India), Sein Und Werden (UK), White Rabbit (Chile)<\/em> and elsewhere, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Lana resides in the coastal town of Nha Trang, Vietnam, where she is a wife of a talking-wonder novelist, and a mom of two far-too-clever frolicsome imps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pushcart nominee, Lana has a diverse work of poetry and fiction published and forthcoming with over 140 journals, including a chapbook with Crisis Chronicles <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2783,"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":[319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moon-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874","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=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}