{"id":11011,"date":"2016-06-08T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=11011"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:09:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:09:40","slug":"rose-mary-boehm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/rose-mary-boehm\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose Mary Boehm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We didn\u2019t know we were poor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we went hungry.<br \/>\nMother made dandelion salad<br \/>\nand stingy-nettle soup. Potatoes<br \/>\nand carrots in water with salt.<br \/>\nMother had been on the train again<br \/>\nto visit farmer Ruttenberger. Left our<br \/>\nlast silver flatware with his wife.<br \/>\nBrought back a big sack of rye.<br \/>\nCan see her still, her too large dress,<br \/>\nher apron, the coffee machine<br \/>\nbetween her thighs, milling.<\/p>\n<p>My scary aunt with the deep voice<br \/>\nand a wart on her chin would send us<br \/>\ninto the woods: \u2018Don\u2019t you go eating<br \/>\nthe blueberries now. Bring them home,<br \/>\nyou hear? I need them for jam making.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>There was a place near the brook<br \/>\nwhere the world smelled of woodruff<br \/>\nand ceps, where bluebells announced<br \/>\nour indelicate approach.<\/p>\n<p>Getting back empty-handed, round-eyed<br \/>\nand honest-to-god we hadn\u2019t found even one,<br \/>\nmy aunt wiped blue-purple stains<br \/>\nfrom our guilty faces.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Author of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Tangents-Rose-Mary-Boehm\/dp\/1907407405?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=rose%20mary%20boehm&amp;qid=1452878115&amp;ref_=sr_1_3&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> TANGENTS <\/a>(published in the UK in 2011), <strong>Rose Mary Boehm<\/strong>\u2019s work has been widely published in the US. Twice winner of the monthly Goodreads competition. A new poetry collection is earmarked for publication in the US in 2016. Twitter: @alia38<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; We didn\u2019t know we were poor Sometimes we went hungry. Mother made dandelion salad and stingy-nettle soup. Potatoes and carrots in water with salt. Mother had been on the train again to visit farmer Ruttenberger. Left our last silver flatware with his wife. Brought back a big sack of rye. Can see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[135,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11011"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23826,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions\/23826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}