{"id":331,"date":"2018-09-06T03:29:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T03:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=331"},"modified":"2018-08-01T03:35:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T03:35:22","slug":"short-prayer-and-other-poems-by-wendy-carlisle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2018\/09\/06\/short-prayer-and-other-poems-by-wendy-carlisle\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Prayer and other poems by Wendy Carlisle"},"content":{"rendered":"
Wendy Taylor Carlisle lives and writes in the Arkansas Ozarks. She is the author of two books and five chapbooks. For more about her, check her website at www.wendytaylorcarlisle.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/h6>\n

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Short Prayer<\/h3>\n

God, if there is a god, bless Friday afternoon for the stack of wood I didn\u2019t get cut, for the co-worker I unwittingly snubbed, for the party I skipped just because and for the sigh I heaved knowing it was three days until blessed Monday.<\/p>\n

God, (same caveat), bless Monday for its upstart beginning, for the rejections stacked up over the weekend and for its optimistic heart, for its sentences that begin, this week I\u2019m<\/em>\u2026. Bless this day since it has its tongue out for the first snowflake, its palm out for a raindrop. Praise Monday because there\u2019s nowhere to go from there but on.<\/p>\n

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My Husband Asks, What Are You Thinking<\/em>?<\/h3>\n

I\u2019m pondering on
\na rodeo man,
\nRCA belt buckle,
\nstiletto toes, arched back,
\na tall skinny stranger
\nalways waving
\ngoodbye<\/p>\n

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I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.\u00a0<\/em><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 –\u00a0<\/em>Frieda Kahlo<\/p>\n

Diego Rivera called his daughter, \u201cLittle Pinhead,\u201d
\nFrieda Kahlo was barren<\/p>\n

Rivera was a Mexican, a nationalist, a leftist.
\nFrieda was always in pain.<\/p>\n

Rivera only painted her twice.
\nFrieda said, At the end of the day, <\/em><\/p>\n

we can endure much more <\/em>
\nthan we think we can<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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William, the Poem<\/h3>\n

When Stafford was asked
\nhow he wrote a passable
\npoem each day, he answered,
\nLower your standards.<\/em><\/p>\n

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After Great Loss<\/h3>\n

I have become the mistress of the unlit,
\nblack dress formal, sad as a 2 car funeral.
\nWhat shall I do in all this somber dark
\nbut dance and dance and dance
\nin my hallelujah shoes?<\/p>\n

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Wendy Taylor Carlisle lives and writes in the Arkansas Ozarks. She is the author of two books and five chapbooks. For more about her, check her website at www.wendytaylorcarlisle.com.   Short Prayer God, if there is a god, bless Friday afternoon for the stack of wood I didn\u2019t get cut, for the co-worker I unwittingly … 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","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-5l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","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=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}