{"id":1527,"date":"2013-03-26T08:49:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T16:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2013-11-29T13:31:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T21:31:52","slug":"suzanne-bottelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=1527","title":{"rendered":"Suzanne Bottelli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT ON THE TONGUE<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">xxxxxxxxxxxxx<\/span>cento for Thomas Merton<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>our weakness should not terrify<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">xxxxxxxx<\/span>it is the source of our strength<br \/>\nand if I stand back and consider<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">xxxxxxxx<\/span>myself and You<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">xxxxxxxx<\/span>as if something had passed between us<br \/>\nis that contemplation?<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">xxxxxxxxxx<\/span>I will inevitably see<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">xxxxxxxx<\/span>the gap between us<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">xxxxxxxxxx<\/span>my mind<br \/>\nmaking a noise like a bank<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">xxxxxx<\/span>there is only one vocation<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">xxxxxxxx<\/span>distance from all things<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">xxxxxx\u00a0<\/span>a lament<br \/>\nas rough and clean as stone<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">xxxxx<\/span>I wish it were over \u2013<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">xxxxxxxx<\/span>I wish it were begun<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northwestschool.org\/faculty\/profiles\/suzanne.shtml\">Suzanne Bottelli<\/a> grew up in New Jersey and lives in Seattle, where she is a Humanities teacher and an Environment program coordinator at The Northwest School.\u00a0 Her poems have appeared in <em>Fine Madness<\/em>, <em>Prairie Schooner<\/em>, <em>Poet Lore<\/em>, and <em>West Branch<\/em>,<em> <\/em>among others.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/artisttrust.org\/index.php\/award-winners\/artist-profile\/suzanne_bottelli\">She has received GAP awards<\/a> from Artist Trust, as well as a Seattle Arts Commission Literary Artist award.\u00a0 Her collection <em>A Visual Glossary of the Physical World<\/em> has not been published but was a semi-finalist for Eastern Washington University Press\u2019 Blue Lynx Prize and a finalist for Black Lawrence Press\u2019 St. Lawrence Book Award.\u00a0 Bottelli is currently working on a book-length poem that is located in the Watchung Mountains of New Jersey.\u00a0 This work investigates the geologic, environmental, and social layers of the region roughtly between the Passaic and Raritan Rivers, including the \u201cdeserted village\u201d of Feltville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SALT ON THE TONGUE xxxxxxxxxxxxxcento for Thomas Merton &nbsp; our weakness should not terrify xxxxxxxxit is the source of our strength and if I stand back and considerxxxxxxxxmyself and You xxxxxxxxas if something had passed between us is that contemplation?xxxxxxxxxxI &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=1527\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[258,125,8,1],"tags":[491,778],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}