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He accused me of writing confessional poems, issues for therapy.<\/span><\/p>\n Pull shut the heavy velvet curtain, sit on the hard mahogany bench,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n smell cedar with bitter elderberry, stained-glass shadows laying\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n a heavy romantic carpet down, leading deeper but not deep enough.<\/span><\/p>\n Everything I say seems that way\u00a0<\/span>but what I am not saying is the work.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Step outside to another grey day on Lorain Street, I blow my\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n nose into a handful of dried Sycamore leaves, throw down<\/span><\/p>\n they land next to a tangled wad of dirty yarn, <\/span><\/p>\n partially consumed chicken wing,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n an unidentifiable twisted metal rod<\/span><\/p>\n belonging to the town\u2019s maintenance machinery.<\/span><\/p>\n Remember that poem about the warm oatmeal cookies, <\/span><\/p>\n robbed from the porch of a college student,<\/span> lovingly <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n wrapped in a silver box with purple ribbon? <\/span><\/p>\n That poem– a smoke screen, deflection–avoiding<\/span><\/p>\n ‘Miller’s dog’ <\/em><\/span>and <\/span>‘Corby’s beer”.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He accused me of writing confessional poems, issues for therapy. Pull shut the heavy velvet curtain, sit on the hard mahogany bench,\u00a0 smell cedar …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Sunday Edition with\n\nConfessional Poems by Lori Morgan Flood\n\n","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[170,213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_0638.jpg?fit=1440%2C1080&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2779"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3446,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions\/3446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}image:\u00a0 Lori Morgan Flood<\/h6>\n