{"id":7319,"date":"2020-02-17T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=7319"},"modified":"2020-02-17T11:00:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T11:00:04","slug":"poetry-lynn-caldwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2020\/02\/17\/poetry-lynn-caldwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry \u2013 Lynn Caldwell (with recording)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Holding Vellum to the Light<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pages of the city<br \/>\nunfold its secrets<br \/>\nlike holding vellum to the light,<br \/>\na palimpsest of the past.<\/p>\n<p>Who walked here on sacred ground?<br \/>\nWhat foundations lie under<br \/>\nthat coffee shop all birch and glass?<br \/>\nYou may see<br \/>\na piece of broken railing,<br \/>\nthe bronze of a sword.<br \/>\nThis step led to an open door &#8211;<br \/>\nkettle&#8217;s on, teacake still warm \u2013<br \/>\na girl, flaming hair and rough linen.<br \/>\nThe open space above you<br \/>\nwas a window:<br \/>\na woman called children to dinner;<br \/>\nthere, that corner,<br \/>\na man waited for a lover<br \/>\nwho never arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Take a minute.<br \/>\nIn the blank spaces<br \/>\nlook into the light:<br \/>\nyou can see footprints, a torn letter in the wind,<br \/>\na field of buttercup and burdock,<br \/>\nwillowherb and silverweed<br \/>\nunderneath the paving.<\/p>\n<p>Watch your step, consider<br \/>\nwhat marks the trail you leave behind.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Holding Vellum To The Light by Cassandra Voices\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F761742529&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Lynn Caldwell\u2019s work has been published in The Irish Times for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award; Dedalus Press\u2019s anthology WRITING HOME; FLARE; and The Antigonish Review, and has featured on Irish radio\u2019s Sunday Miscellany. She was a runner up in Aesthetica\u2019s Creative Writing Award 2017, has a BA in creative writing from the University of Victoria, Canada and blogs at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kennedystreet.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">http:\/\/kennedystreet.wordpress.com<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Featured Image Daniele Idini.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holding Vellum to the Light The pages of the city unfold its secrets like holding vellum to the light, a palimpsest of the past. Who walked here on sacred ground? What foundations lie under that coffee shop all birch and glass? You may see a piece of broken railing, the bronze of a sword. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":7321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[253,4128,5737],"class_list":["post-7319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-a-palimpsest-of-the-past","tag-holding-vellum-to-the-light","tag-lynn-caldwell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}