{"id":8154,"date":"2022-12-29T18:14:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T18:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=8154"},"modified":"2022-12-29T18:14:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T18:14:45","slug":"gestation-a-poem-by-bonnie-bostrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/gestation-a-poem-by-bonnie-bostrom\/","title":{"rendered":"Gestation. A Poem by Bonnie Bostrom"},"content":{"rendered":"
\r\nGestation<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\r\nI want to capture a poem;\r\n                   There are thousands swirling\r\n\t\t\t\tIn my midnight room.\r\n\r\nI stalked one into the kitchen\r\n\tWhere it joined me for a graham cracker\r\nAnd peanut butter sandwich (crunchy style)\r\n\t\tAlong with a fistful of Fritos.\r\n\r\nBack in bed,\r\n\r\nOne shared my pillow and asked ridiculous questions like\u2014\r\n\t\tWhat is the first name of Aristotle?\r\nAnd\u2026..\r\n\t\t\tWhy the hell do you keep doing this?\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\tI am in deep desire for the orgasmic climax\r\nOf a poem sought and seduced\r\n\t\t\tI\t\tnto a stand still\r\nWhile these dervish lines flying \r\n\t\t\tAround my room avoid me, yet tease with \r\nFlash glimpsed images. \r\n\r\nThere is no satiety without the sentences lying\r\n\t\tLayer by layer on a page\r\n\t\t\t\tLike the blankets on this bed of torture\r\nWhere the very best my mind can muster\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEscapes \r\n\t\t\t\tBefore congealing into meaning.\r\n\r\nI sift through a thousand partial pictures looking\r\n\t\t\t \t\tFor that nascent combination of words\r\n\tThat will condense, make sense and lead to\r\n\t\t\t\tParturition <\/pre>\n
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Bonnie Bostrom <\/strong>has been writing poetry since she mastered cursive.  She has published eight books, both solo and in collaboration: The WayShowers, Women Facing Retirement: A Time For Self-Reflection, Quicksilver Dreams, Buddha Nature of the Soutwest, Image & Word: A Dialectic, Born Crazy, Love, Always Love, and Duet. Born Crazy<\/em>, a memoir, received an Eric Hoffer Finalist Award.  She lives in New Mexico with her husband, Jim. Her website is www.bonniebostrom.com.<\/a><\/p>\n
 
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Gestation I want to capture a poem; There are thousands swirling In my midnight room. I stalked one into the kitchen Where it joined me for a graham cracker And peanut butter sandwich (crunchy style) Along with a fistful of Fritos. Back in bed, One shared my pillow and asked ridiculous questions like\u2014 What is … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,808,796,366,754,401,43],"tags":[18,136,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8154"}],"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=8154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8158,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8154\/revisions\/8158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}