{"id":2923,"date":"2016-02-15T15:01:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T15:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2016-02-21T23:59:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T23:59:14","slug":"this-many-times-by-darlene-maria-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/this-many-times-by-darlene-maria-scott\/","title":{"rendered":"This, Many Times by darlene anita scott"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"me<\/h1>\n

This, Many Times<\/h1>\n

by darlene anita scott<\/p>\n

After Kindred, 1979
\nIt looks like noise.
\nThe interruption of her is not just blood
\nbut a cautious letting of the tools of a trade
\nlong benefiting others while she stood
\nwith one half her arm buried in a wall,
\na time, a space that travels through her veins
\nas if an intracoastal waterway between Now and Then.
\nSometimes when I drive I-95,
\nthe part that is the Route 1 of my father\u2019s boyhood,
\nthe autosave feature of my blood flips through its catalog.
\nIt could be noise.
\nMy dad appears in my dreams and my temper
\noften enough that when his phone number appears
\non my caller ID, Daddy? I say jovially like a joke
\nis being played, half expecting to hear
\nwater, humming. Which may explain
\nwhen I met her, I already knew her.
\nThe blood does not forget. And noise is its
\ncoagulate. This. Many times.
\nEvery time: genesis.<\/p>\n

###<\/p>\n

darlene anita scott is an insatiable daydreamer and so-so runner who likes homemade popcorn and alone time–not necessarily together.<\/p>\n

Her poetry appears in diode, The Baltimore Review, Quiddity<\/em>, and J Journal<\/em> among others.<\/p>\n

scott’s manuscript Marrow imagines Jonestown Guyana, a spiritual community whose residents were coerced into suicide by their spiritual leader. It was a semi-finalist for the Crab Orchard Review First Book Award and still seeks a publisher. In the meantime she is developing Breathing Lessons 101<\/em> a poetry collection illustrated with her own photos that explores the good girl stereotype as it is applied to girls of color.<\/p>\n

scott lives and teaches in Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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