{"id":1021,"date":"2020-12-06T16:11:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T20:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=1021"},"modified":"2021-06-18T07:50:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T11:50:34","slug":"a-brief-history-of-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/a-brief-history-of-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div id=\"attachment_912\" style=\"width: 421px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-912\" class=\"wp-image-912 \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2020\/11\/413-Education-for-All-series-by-Guilherme-Bergamini--683x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2020\/11\/413-Education-for-All-series-by-Guilherme-Bergamini--683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2020\/11\/413-Education-for-All-series-by-Guilherme-Bergamini--200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2020\/11\/413-Education-for-All-series-by-Guilherme-Bergamini--768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2020\/11\/413-Education-for-All-series-by-Guilherme-Bergamini--1024x1536.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2020\/11\/413-Education-for-All-series-by-Guilherme-Bergamini--1366x2048.png 1366w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2020\/11\/413-Education-for-All-series-by-Guilherme-Bergamini-.png 1653w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">image from <em>Education for All<\/em> series by Guilherme Bergamini<\/p><\/div>\r\n<h3><strong><br \/>A Brief History of Tomorrow<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p>Rae Rozman<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Her hands on the wheel-shaping, shaping\u2014 they say man came from clay and I wonder for the two hundred and fifty seventh time was it like this: a woman building up a spinning vase\/\/I pick her wildflowers while she throws another piece, excusing my solitude with handfuls of lantana and tulips tied with scraps of lavender yarn: <em>a necessary death<\/em> I say and she smiles, arranging\/\/She is thinking of the hospitals of the endless futuristic beeping, of store-bought flowers and plastic vases and a woman who could create life from clay\/\/<em>a necessary death<\/em> they\u2019ll say. <em>Expected<\/em>\u2014<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>A half-finished vase drying on the wheel.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\r\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-745\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2020\/11\/Rae-Rozman-Headshot.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"145\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Rae Rozman<\/strong> is a queer poet and educator in Texas. She can be found on Instagram @mistress_of_mnemosyne sharing poems and book reviews.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Brief History of Tomorrow Rae Rozman Her hands on the wheel-shaping, shaping\u2014 they say man came from clay and I wonder for the two hundred and fifty seventh time <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/a-brief-history-of-tomorrow\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3309,"featured_media":0,"parent":1261,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1489,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1021\/revisions\/1489"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}