{"id":6723,"date":"2018-04-01T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=6723"},"modified":"2022-06-26T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:30:00","slug":"poetry-memories-from-my-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/01\/poetry-memories-from-my-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry: Memories From My Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/allpoetry.com\/poem\/13537105-Memories-From-My-Mother-by-Kent-Malcom\">Memories From My Mother<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>by Kent Malcom<\/p>\n<p>These memories you shared with me<br \/>\n*****And they became mine<\/p>\n<p>The black blanket of night<br \/>\n*****embroidered with the light of stars, gently covering you &#8211;<br \/>\n*****tucking you into your desert bed.<\/p>\n<p>Your grandmother&#8217;s stories rising into the night<br \/>\n*****intertwined with the smoke from her corn cob pipe.<\/p>\n<p>An Indian doll found beneath the sage, held tightly to your chest<br \/>\n*****A totem of your mixed blood that flows just under your white trash skin<\/p>\n<p>These memories you shared with me<br \/>\n*****I hold them tightly and give them back to you<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>You can read more of Kent Malcom&#8217;s work at the following link:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/allpoetry.com\/Kent_Malcom\">https:\/\/allpoetry.com\/Kent_Malcom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memories From My Mother by Kent Malcom These memories you shared with me *****And they became mine The black blanket of night *****embroidered with the light of stars, gently covering you &#8211; *****tucking you&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":5816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[94,110],"class_list":["post-6723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tma-articles-and-commentary","tag-poetry","tag-the-multiracial-activist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1Kr","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/08\/Articles-and-Commentary.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6723"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6727,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions\/6727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}