{"id":4739,"date":"2018-08-23T14:24:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T19:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=4739"},"modified":"2018-08-19T14:35:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T19:35:19","slug":"romana-iorga-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=4739","title":{"rendered":"Romana Iorga &#8220;The Pond&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Romana Iorga<\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">The Pond<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Writing is like fishing<br \/>\nin that silt-choked pond<\/p>\n<p>behind your grandfather\u2019s<br \/>\nfarm, where you knew<\/p>\n<p>you were unlikely to catch<br \/>\nanything, since there were no<\/p>\n<p>fish left, only frogs, and maybe<br \/>\nthe occasional cottonmouth,<\/p>\n<p>which wasn\u2019t something<br \/>\nyou hoped to reel in,<\/p>\n<p>and yet, here you go again,<br \/>\nstubbornly, religiously even,<\/p>\n<p>canvas chair in one hand,<br \/>\nfishing rod in the other.<\/p>\n<p><em>Originally from Chisinau, Moldova, <\/em><span style=\"color: #800000;\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><strong>Romana Iorga<\/strong><\/span><em> is a Romanian-American poet living in Switzerland, where she spends her days mingling with words, dogs, and children, not necessarily in that order.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romana Iorga The Pond Writing is like fishing in that silt-choked pond behind your grandfather\u2019s farm, where you knew you were unlikely to catch anything, since there were no fish left, only frogs, and maybe the occasional cottonmouth, which wasn\u2019t something you hoped to reel in, and yet, here you go again, stubbornly, religiously even, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[504],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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