I once took comfort
In the refuge of you
And your turbulent sea<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I once offered up
The wholeness of me<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That way your waters
Chiseled at
The sharp corners
Of my pain<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That way your waters
Swallowed my story,
Shattered me, and
Spit me back out —<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Resurrected on your shore
Like an unexpected gift
Round and smooth
I stay, desperate for you–<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Put in a pretty bowl
On top of your pretty shelf
Admire me from afar<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Make me something else
Make me someone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I once took comfortIn the refuge of youAnd your turbulent sea I once offered upThe wholeness of me That way your watersChiseled atThe sharp cornersOf my pain That way your watersSwallowed my story,Shattered me, andSpit me back out — Resurrected on your shoreLike an unexpected giftRound and smoothI stay, desperate for you– Put in a … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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":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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-IO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2779,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions\/2779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Brandi Kary is a mother, educator, and poet who lives in Pacific Grove, California. She\u2019s taught English and Creative Writing at Monterey Peninsula College for many years. Aside from loving words, Brandi loves to lift heavy things. She\u2019s a competitive powerlifter and currently holds world records and national records for bench pressing and deadlifting.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"