{"id":7093,"date":"2022-11-11T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=7093"},"modified":"2022-11-05T21:57:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T02:57:09","slug":"jerry-krajnak-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=7093","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Krajnak &#8220;Hope&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Jerry Krajnak<\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Hope<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>My final tomato vine froze last night<br \/>\nafter it waged quite a fight,<br \/>\nsurviving a long season of drought,<\/p>\n<p>then too much rain, fusarium wilt,<br \/>\npowdery mildew, stinkbugs, aphids,<br \/>\nfruitworms, frass, and, yes, neglect,<\/p>\n<p>its final fruit, picked green and hard,<br \/>\nasleep in newsprint under my bed,<br \/>\nwaiting for a winter day<\/p>\n<p>when I\u2019ll fry bacon, make some toast,<br \/>\nand taste, I hope, a bit of sunshine.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Jerry Krajnak<\/strong><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>,<\/strong><\/span> a former altar boy and a Vietnam veteran who went on to survive forty years in public school classrooms, gardens and writes poetry in the North Carolina mountains.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Krajnak Hope My final tomato vine froze last night after it waged quite a fight, surviving a long season of drought, then too much rain, fusarium wilt, powdery mildew, stinkbugs, aphids, fruitworms, frass, and, yes, neglect, its final fruit, picked green and hard, asleep in newsprint under my bed, waiting for a winter day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1040,"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":[766],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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