yarn, my grandmother
gave me
woven with hands my mother
made me<\/p>\n\n\n\n
generations
keeping me warm<\/p>\n\n\n\n
my mother painted
i forgot
i write
i forgot<\/p>\n\n\n\n
my skin sags where i smile<\/p>\n\n\n\n
i bask in the stillness
i waver in the sameness<\/p>\n\n\n\n
did you yearn to run the way I do?
did you wish you stayed out west?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
what we as women
become in staying
where we were born<\/p>\n\n\n\n
moss sprouting on our skin<\/p>\n\n\n\n
my grandmother begs me
to stay home
her eyes plead with me
grow<\/p>\n\n\n\n
she said you planned
on arizona
and you passed
before the trip<\/p>\n\n\n\n
i feel stuck more often than not
roots spread too deep
too far<\/p>\n\n\n\n
i remind myself<\/p>\n\n\n\n
you are magic
tender magic<\/p>\n\n\n\n
a flame behold
smoldering surfaced
it\u2019s time to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
yarn, my grandmothergave mewoven with hands my mothermade me generationskeeping me warm my mother paintedi forgoti writei forgot my skin sags where i smile i bask in the stillnessi waver in the sameness did you yearn to run the way I do?did you wish you stayed out west? what we as womenbecome in stayingwhere we … 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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-QM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272","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=3272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3273,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions\/3273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Madigan McDermott is an emerging poet from Elyria, Ohio who has been writing poetry for the last 10 years. While she has no formal education in literature, her nose has been buried in books and notebooks since she could walk. Outside of writing, Madigan enjoys being a hairstylist, getting out to the mountains, and spending time with her chihuahua’s.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"