{"id":2941,"date":"2016-02-22T23:43:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T23:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2017-03-25T04:31:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T04:31:00","slug":"rye-shoulders-cake-breasts-by-emily-strauss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/rye-shoulders-cake-breasts-by-emily-strauss\/","title":{"rendered":"Rye Shoulders, Cake Breasts by Emily Strauss"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2942\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2942\" style=\"width: 354px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2942 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/red-on-green-by-Lynda-Warne-24-X-18-oil-2012.jpg\" alt=\"red-on-green-by-Lynda-Warne-24-X-18-oil-2012\" width=\"354\" height=\"468\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/red-on-green-by-Lynda-Warne-24-X-18-oil-2012.jpg 406w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/red-on-green-by-Lynda-Warne-24-X-18-oil-2012-227x300.jpg 227w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 354px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 354\/468;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red on Green by Lynda Warne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Rye Shoulders, Cake Breasts<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by\u00a0Emily Strauss<\/p>\n<p>warm loaves like buttocks<br \/>\nbaked into shape,<br \/>\nthe clay oven cooling now<br \/>\nbutter softens, quince jam<br \/>\nchunky<br \/>\nthe knife will cut me<br \/>\nopen to steam<br \/>\nat the naked window<br \/>\nwith fall clouds lowering<br \/>\nthe air darkening<br \/>\nlight a lamp on a blue<br \/>\nDelft plate on the wooden<br \/>\ntable, thick slice<br \/>\nready to bite, lick<br \/>\nsugar from your fingers<br \/>\nyour tongue seeking<br \/>\nthe crumbs, round<br \/>\nsweet buns of morning<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Emily Strauss has an M.A. in English, but is self-taught in poetry, which she has written since college Over 300 of her poems appear in a wide variety of online venues and in anthologies, in the U.S. and abroad. The natural world is generally her framework; she also considers the stories of people and places around her. She is a semi-retired teacher living in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Strauss has an M.A. in English, but is self-taught in poetry, which she has written since college Over 300 of her poems appear in a wide variety of online venues and in anthologies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2942,"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":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941","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=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}