{"id":204,"date":"2016-05-21T19:50:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T19:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=204"},"modified":"2016-05-21T19:50:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T19:50:07","slug":"poem-of-the-month-eating-artichokes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"Poem of the Month: Eating Artichokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first artichoke<br \/>\nbloomed on its plate<br \/>\nlike a sea plant,<br \/>\npetals steamed open,<br \/>\ngreen shadow cups,<br \/>\nsecret flesh.<\/p>\n<p>I had to watch you<br \/>\nto learn how to eat<br \/>\nhow to pull off leaves,<br \/>\nscrape teeth and lips<br \/>\nacross tough skin,<br \/>\nreap the meat.<\/p>\n<p>The soft inner flaps<br \/>\npurple-edged, pale<br \/>\nwrapped the deadly choke;<br \/>\ntufted, lethal feathers<br \/>\nhid a waiting heart,<br \/>\ntender, thick.<\/p>\n<p>You whisked it away<br \/>\nsliced back the tendrils<br \/>\npoised to strangle,<br \/>\npresented the naked heart<br \/>\ndoused in fresh butter,<br \/>\nunguarded.<\/p>\n<p>I thought you&#8217;d saved my life<br \/>\nushered me through danger<br \/>\ninto luscious pleasure,<br \/>\nand every artichoke since<br \/>\nrenews the old challenge:<br \/>\nrisk or starve.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eating Artichokes&#8221; was published in the on-line journal <em>Switched-On Gutenberg<\/em>, 2000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/400-06332072c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-205\" src=\"http:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/400-06332072c-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"400-06332072c\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/400-06332072c-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/400-06332072c-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/400-06332072c.jpg 774w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first artichoke bloomed on its plate like a sea plant, petals steamed open, green shadow cups, secret flesh. I <a href=\"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/?p=204\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-noellesickelswp","post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-allposts","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noellesickels.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}