{"id":4849,"date":"2024-12-01T17:58:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T21:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=4849"},"modified":"2024-12-01T17:58:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T21:58:32","slug":"2024-dear-water","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/2024-dear-water\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Dear Water"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fish Cuff 1, Hauptly<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dear Water<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Dear Water,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

You are as empty\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 as my name. Your language<\/span><\/p>\n

flows, unconstrained, more gesture<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 than meaning. Stone-hold,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

fish-home, existing below\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0the surface of your implied color.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Like you, I am snow-grown, winter-<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0nurtured. I\u2019ve been told\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

my ancestors crushed grapes\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 to liquid beneath their toes.<\/span><\/p>\n

I doubt that. But you know\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 where you\u2019ve been. You trust\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

the ground eroding below you.<\/span><\/p>\n

Holt<\/p>\n

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Kristen Holt-Browning is a poet, writer, and editor. She is the author of the novel <\/span>Ordinary Devotion<\/span><\/i> (Monkfish Books, 2024) and the poetry chapbook <\/span>The Only Animal Awake in the House<\/span><\/i> (Moonstone Press, 2022). Her work has appeared in <\/span>Hayden\u2019s Ferry Review<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Hunger Mountain<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>The Westchester Review<\/span><\/i>, and several other publications. Kristen holds an MA in English from University College London and lives in Beacon, New York. Learn more at <\/span>www.kristenholt-browning.com<\/span><\/a>, or follow her on Instagram (@theholtbrowning).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ellie Hauptly: Always inspired by the world around me, I have been creating for as long as I can remember. Capturing my life has always been important to me: in photographs, in sketchbooks, in journal entries and short stories. Most mediums in which I have sought to capture glimpses of my life had always felt fleeting, like the photographs shoved in the shoebox under my bed, or the sketchbooks collecting dust on the shelf, that is until I found metal. I am an aspiring jeweler, studying as an undergraduate, attempting to encapsulate moments of my life in a medium that feels eternal. “Fish Cuff” was inspired by a visit to the Seattle Art Museum, which houses Chinese porcelain found amongst a shipwreck, covered in coral. “Fish Cuff\u201d evokes a similar feeling of wonder, that maybe the cuff itself was pulled directly from the ocean floor to become a wearable treasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Dear Water Dear Water, You are as empty\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 as my name. Your language flows, unconstrained, more gesture \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 than meaning. Stone-hold,\u00a0 fish-home, Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7305,"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\/4849"}],"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\/7305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4849"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5369,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4849\/revisions\/5369"}],"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=4849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}