{"id":2893,"date":"2014-08-22T12:34:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T12:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2014-08-25T14:26:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T14:26:17","slug":"in-a-waiting-room-poem-by-valentina-cano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/in-a-waiting-room-poem-by-valentina-cano\/","title":{"rendered":"In a Waiting Room. Poem by Valentina Cano"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
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Legs like marionettes,
\nshuffling with feet made
\nof cotton balls and lead paint.
\nShe swings them up and down
\nagainst the counter
\nand turns herself into a metronome.
\nNo more than senseless rhythm
\nand tired wood.<\/strong>
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\nValentina Cano is a student of classical singing who spends whatever free time either writing or reading. Her works have appeared in Exercise Bowler, Blinking Cursor, Theory Train, Cartier Street Press, Berg Gasse 19, Precious Metals, A Handful of Dust, The Scarlet Sound, The Adroit Journal, Perceptions Literary Magazine, Welcome to Wherever, The Corner Club Press, Death Rattle, Danse Macabre, Subliminal Interiors, Generations Literary Journal, A Narrow Fellow, Super Poetry Highway, Stream Press, Stone Telling, Popshot, Golden Sparrow Literary Review, Rem Magazine, Structo, The 22 Magazine, The Black Fox Literary Magazine, Niteblade, Tuck Magazine, Ontologica, Congruent Spaces Magazine, Pipe Dream, Decades Review, Anatomy, Lowestof Chronicle, Muddy River Poetry Review, Lady Ink Magazine, Spark Anthology, Awaken Consciousness Magazine, Vine Leaves Literary Magazine, Avalon Literary Review, Caduceus,White Masquerade Anthology and Perhaps I’m Wrong About the World. Her poetry has been nominated for Best of the Web and the Pushcart Prize. Her debut novel, The Rose Master, was published in June 2014. You can find her here: carabosseslibrary.blogspot.com<\/a><\/strong>
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    Legs like marionettes, shuffling with feet made of cotton balls and lead paint. She swings them up and down against the counter and turns herself into a metronome. No more than senseless rhythm and tired wood.     Valentina Cano is a student of classical singing who spends whatever free time either writing … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,570],"tags":[18,136,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2904,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions\/2904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}