{"id":2201,"date":"2017-02-14T08:38:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T13:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2201"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:19","slug":"after-all-i-am-your-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/02\/14\/after-all-i-am-your-own\/","title":{"rendered":"after all I am your own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, in celebration of Valentine\u2019s Day, I am very pleased to share with <em>A Work Day in Hard Times<\/em>\u00a0readers some of the love poems written by Broadside Press authors.<\/p>\n<p>Dudley Randall, founder and editor of Broadside Press, wrote often and beautifully of love. Some of his best known poems, such as \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.illinois.edu\/maps\/poets\/m_r\/randall\/onlinepoems.htm\">The Profile on the Pillow<\/a>,\u201d capture those fleeting moments when our beloveds are present to us in all of their perfection.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cAnniversary Words\u201d Randall captures a different face of love, one all-too present to our foibles and imperfections and, for that very reason, perhaps even more lovely.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnniversary Words\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You who have shared my scanty bread with me<br \/>\nand borne my carelessness and forgetfulness<br \/>\nwith only occasional lack of tenderness,<br \/>\nwho have long patiently endured my faculty<br \/>\nfor genial neglect of practicality,<br \/>\nfor forgetting the morning and the parting caress<br \/>\nand for leaving rooms in a great disorderliness<br \/>\nwhich when I entered were as neat as they could be,<\/p>\n<p>despite the absent-mindedness of my ways<br \/>\nand the not seldom acerbity of your tone,<br \/>\nI sometimes catch a softness in your gaze<br \/>\nwhich tells me after all I am your own<br \/>\nand that you love me in no little way.<br \/>\nBut I know it best by the things you never say.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rosemary Weatherston, Ph.D.<br \/>\nAssociate Professor of English<br \/>\nDirector, Women&#8217;s &amp; Gender Studies Program<br \/>\nDirector, Dudley Randall Center for Print Culture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, in celebration of Valentine\u2019s Day, I am very pleased to share with A Work Day in Hard Times\u00a0readers some of the love poems written by Broadside Press authors. Dudley Randall, founder and editor of Broadside Press, wrote often &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/02\/14\/after-all-i-am-your-own\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2203,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions\/2203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}