{"id":591,"date":"2022-09-22T15:59:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T19:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/?p=591"},"modified":"2022-09-22T15:59:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T19:59:30","slug":"canary-plum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/canary-plum\/","title":{"rendered":"Canary, Plum"},"content":{"rendered":"
for Vanessa<\/em><\/p>\n She runs her finger and nameless, like the look Yellow bleeds red seeps orange. for Vanessa She runs her finger across tubes of paint, tosses them on the kitchen table where a clatter of color spreads out. Midnight blue overlaps umber, something new and nameless, like the look on her mother\u2019s face the night the police shot her uncle. Mauve and periwinkle, named by someone long before she was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"issue":[9],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nacross tubes of paint, tosses them
\non the kitchen table where a clatter
\nof color spreads out. Midnight blue
\noverlaps umber, something new<\/p>\n
\non her mother\u2019s face
\nthe night the police shot her uncle.
\nMauve and periwinkle, named
\nby someone long before she was born,
\nwhen she was just a dab in the swirl.<\/p>\n
\nWords keep changing, too. Sometimes
\nit\u2019s victim, other times, survivor.
\nWords gather themselves
\nin strands, like the crystal beads
\nher mother wears to capture the light.
\nEvery night she comes home
\nfrom the hospital saying soon, soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"