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Approximately 10 years ago – and we say ‘approximately’ because the earliest saved post we have is from 5th January 2007 – Ink Sweat & Tears was born. We celebrate quietly today with Marjorie Sadin’s poem below.<\/p>\n
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Six Rowers\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Six rowers on the river in mid-spring, The six rowers go under a bridge. As if I could stay alive <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Marjorie Sadin<\/strong>, a docent at the Library of Congress, has poems in The Barefoot Review, Microw, Emerge, The Little Magazine, Jewish Women\u2019s Literary Journal, Tower Journal<\/em>, among many others, and five books of poetry in print. Her new Vision of Lucha<\/em> book portrays struggle and survival, love, death, and family. It was published by Goldfish Press. Marjorie lives and reads her poetry in the Washington DC area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Approximately 10 years ago – and we say ‘approximately’ because the earliest saved post we have is from 5th January 2007 – Ink Sweat & Tears was born. We celebrate quietly today with Marjorie Sadin’s poem below. Six Rowers\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Six rowers on the river in mid-spring, with a motor boat and a […]<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12326","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=12326"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13014,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12326\/revisions\/13014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nwith a motor boat and a man with a megaphone
\npreaching to the rowers.<\/p>\n
\nI can barely see them.
\nAnd I am inside the tiny boat in my mind\u2019s eye,
\nrowing furiously.<\/p>\n
\nmerely by rowing,
\nI dream of a cold river
\nand being on that river.
\nRowing, rowing rowing.<\/p>\n