{"id":781,"date":"2012-08-15T20:36:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T04:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=781"},"modified":"2013-08-17T15:48:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T23:48:39","slug":"sylvia-byrne-pollack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"Sylvia Byrne Pollack"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>Vagrant Waltz<br \/>\n<em>For Yaffa<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time in mid-summer<br \/>\nto think about nothing,<br \/>\nturn from ideas,<br \/>\nmake ice cream instead,<br \/>\nfloat on a raft of popsicle sticks.<\/p>\n<p>You will know when to get up,<br \/>\nwield pencils like chopsticks,<br \/>\ntease apart vagabond thoughts<br \/>\nmeandering through your mind.<\/p>\n<p>When bedraggled ideas knock<br \/>\nat your door, don\u2019t turn them<br \/>\naway. Like your mother before you<br \/>\ngive handouts to hoboes \u2013<\/p>\n<p>a sketch of a cat will be<br \/>\netched on your gate.<br \/>\nWords will come tramping<br \/>\ninto your dreams, vamp<br \/>\nyour domesticated mind<\/p>\n<p>with rumbles, a jungle<br \/>\nutterly outside your safe picket fence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vagrant Walz&#8221; previously appeared in <a href=\"http:\/\/sharkreef.org\/poetry\/vagrant-waltz-for-jaffa\/\">Shark Reef.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuow.org\/program.php?id=26468\">Sylvia Byrne Pollack<\/a>\u00a0retired from careers in cancer research and mental health counseling but remains on \u201cactive duty\u201d as a poet and grandmother. She lives and writes in Seattle. Her recent poems have appeared in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobblecreekreview.net\/Issue15\/Sylvia_Byrne_Pollack.html\"><em>Hobble Creek Review,<\/em> <\/a>in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.templebetham.org\/music\/drash\/\">Drash: Northwest Mosaic <\/a><\/em>and are forthcoming in <em>Solo Novo.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vagrant Waltz For Yaffa It\u2019s time in mid-summer to think about nothing, turn from ideas, make ice cream instead, float on a raft of popsicle sticks. You will know when to get up, wield pencils like chopsticks, tease apart vagabond &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=781\">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":[29,349,8,1],"tags":[263,264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781"}],"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=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1867,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/1867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}