{"id":1024,"date":"2011-02-27T16:29:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T21:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2011-02-27T17:41:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T22:41:01","slug":"poetry-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/poetry-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I am not about to sit here and say that each Sunday I’ll be posting one of my poems here, but I do plan to do this every once and a while. Writing group folks, you’ve seen this one, but I have made some edits.<\/p>\n

Coiffure<\/p>\n

I had what I thought
\nwas Harlem Renaissance hair,
\nmagnificent curls
\nborn of night
\nand pink foam rollers. To,
\n\u201cI like your hair,\u201d I responded,
\n\u201cI feel like I should be singing
\nin a smoky bar.\u201d He answered
\nback, \u201cLike Norah Jones.\u201d<\/p>\n

I had been thinking
\nBillie Holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am not about to sit here and say that each Sunday I’ll be posting one of my poems here, but I do plan to do this every once and a while. Writing group folks, you’ve seen this one, but I have made some edits. Coiffure I had what I thought was Harlem Renaissance hair,… Continue reading Poetry Sunday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-poetry","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p33KTw-gw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4007,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/snippets-from-a-12-year-old-notebook\/","url_meta":{"origin":1024,"position":0},"title":"Snippets From a 12-Year-Old Notebook","author":"admin","date":"November 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't know what made me flip through the notebook I wrote in so many years ago, but I did. 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