{"id":4885,"date":"2024-12-01T17:55:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T21:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=4885"},"modified":"2024-12-01T17:55:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T21:55:29","slug":"2024-grammas-house","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/2024-grammas-house\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Gramma\u2019s House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4975\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4975\" class=\"wp-image-4975 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2024\/11\/Venable_DSC6419-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2024\/11\/Venable_DSC6419-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2024\/11\/Venable_DSC6419-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2024\/11\/Venable_DSC6419-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2024\/11\/Venable_DSC6419-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2024\/11\/Venable_DSC6419-1-690x462.jpg 690w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2024\/11\/Venable_DSC6419-1-390x261.jpg 390w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2024\/11\/Venable_DSC6419-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I Don&#8217;t Care, Venable<\/p><\/div>\r\n<h1><strong>Gramma\u2019s House<\/strong><\/h1>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On a Sunday, the standing fans doing little to move the stagnant air. The scent of the beef simmering on the stove can\u2019t mask three generations\u2019 worth of sweat. They say smell is intimately connected to memory, don\u2019t they? The landline keeps ringing, but no one wants to talk. Auntie has hard candies and a strange man\u2019s last name. Can you be sure it isn\u2019t just a dream, this heavy Georgia afternoon? Can you dream of rising from the low sofa, of running your hand along the chair rail down the hallway, all the doors shut against the heat? Of entering Gramma\u2019s room where the scalloped curtains are drawn, lowering yourself into the shape of her body and the scent of Chanel No. 5 as you feel it all, the chatter, the phone, the radio begin to slip just out of consciousness? If you wake up and everything is gone, how much can you possibly remember?<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>Gannon<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4899 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2024\/11\/E.C.-Gannon-265x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2024\/11\/E.C.-Gannon-265x300.jpeg 265w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2024\/11\/E.C.-Gannon-768x868.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2024\/11\/E.C.-Gannon.jpeg 826w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">E.C. Gannon&#8217;s work has appeared in Peatsmoke Journal, Assignment Magazine, SoFloPoJo, Olit, and elsewhere. Raised in New Hampshire, she holds a degree from Florida State University and is pursuing another at the University of New Mexico.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\" style=\"height: 100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"178\" height=\"178\" class=\"wp-image-5263\" style=\"width: 273px;height: auto\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2024\/11\/James-Reade-Venable.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2024\/11\/James-Reade-Venable.jpg 178w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2024\/11\/James-Reade-Venable-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>James Reade Venable has been published in Black + White Photography, Dodho, F-Stop and many more. He is a 2x London Photo Festival Monthly Competition Winner and was on the Shortlist for the Storytelling category in 2023&#8217;s 500px Global Photography Awards, a finalist for the 2023 Monochromatic Awards by Dodo, and a finalist for this years Color Awards by Dodho. He is also an actor and is currently Henry Dorris in the BBC series Hidden Assets. He lives for his wife and daughter. He lives in New York City at the moment<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gramma\u2019s House On a Sunday, the standing fans doing little to move the stagnant air. 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