{"id":940,"date":"2012-09-26T20:42:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T04:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=940"},"modified":"2012-09-26T20:42:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T04:42:14","slug":"connie-walle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=940","title":{"rendered":"Connie Walle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Withholding of Love as the Ultimate Violence<br \/>\nFrom <em>Battery,<\/em> Robin Morgan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No curl was set correctly, no<br \/>\nmovement was graceful<br \/>\nor complete. No silver shined<br \/>\nnext to the washed dish.<\/p>\n<p>The silence of her lips,<br \/>\nthe sight of her back left me<br \/>\nempty handed. The moon<br \/>\nalways shrouded in veil.<\/p>\n<p>Ripples of her judgment<br \/>\ncould drown me in despair.<br \/>\nShe peeled layers<br \/>\nfrom me year after year,<\/p>\n<p>until reaching my hard core.<br \/>\nThat she could not destroy.<br \/>\nThat I polished like crystal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moondaypoetry.com\/connie-walle-2012.htm\">Connie Walle,<strong> <\/strong><\/a>residing in Tacoma, Washington, is President and founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pugetsoundpoetryconnection.org\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Puget Sound Poetry Connection<\/a> where she hosts the \u201cDistinguished Writer Series\u201d. Connie also founded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.pierce.wa.us\/cfapps\/internet\/news.cfm?node_id=1181&amp;media=PC\"><em>Our Own Words<\/em>,<\/a> a Pierce County Wide teen writing contest.\u00a0\u00a0 A few of her publications include <em><a href=\"http:\/\/floatingbridgepress.fatcow.com\/fb-review\/\">Floating Bridge Review,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravenchronicles.org\/\">Raven Chronicles,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exquisitedisarray.org\/Tacoma_Poetry_Anthology.html\">Tahoma\u2019s Shadow,<\/a><\/em> and <em>Cradle Song.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Withholding of Love as the Ultimate Violence From Battery, Robin Morgan &nbsp; No curl was set correctly, no movement was graceful or complete. No silver shined next to the washed dish. The silence of her lips, the sight of her &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=940\">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":[61,122,8,1],"tags":[306,307],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940"}],"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=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}