{"id":3072,"date":"2024-09-24T15:09:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T19:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/?page_id=3072"},"modified":"2024-09-24T15:09:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T19:09:42","slug":"2024-ginny-padgett-belk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/?page_id=3072","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Clementine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>by Gracie Belk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>I pick my clementines by feel,<br>The soft give of the soft shell,<br>It reminds me of the leather encasing my journal<br>Beholder of my secrets and poems<br>Bond by glue and all the things i\u2019ll never dare to say<br>The origin of who I am and will be started with clementines<br>Possibly even beginning with Clementia<br>The goddess of forgiveness, clemency<br>There is such strength in being gentle;<br>Choosing your clementines one by one,<br>Rolling them between supple palms<br>An art both careful and precise<br>I never wanted to be known as hard, rigid,<br>All I wanted was kind.<br>Someone of great clemency and mercy<br>A person of overwhelming sweetness rather than bitter tang;<br>That\u2019s where my religion lies<br>Believing that my world,<br>This reality I\u2019m graced with is one of leniency<br>That inside of my life there is softness to be told<br>Maybe there\u2019s something other than the sour tellings of misfortune<br>And I too can be forgiven<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Gracie Belk is an emerging writer from Lancaster, SC. She has published works in The <em>Bittermelon Review<\/em> and <em>Red Clay Journal<\/em>. She is also the creative director for <em>Garnet &amp; Black<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Gracie Belk I pick my clementines by feel,The soft give of the soft shell,It reminds me of the leather encasing my journalBeholder of my secrets and poemsBond by glue and all the things i\u2019ll never dare to sayThe origin of who I am and will be started with clementinesPossibly even beginning with ClementiaThe goddess of forgiveness, clemencyThere is such strength in being gentle;Choosing your clementines one by one,Rolling them between supple palmsAn art both careful and preciseI never wanted to be known as hard, rigid,All I wanted was kind.Someone of great clemency and mercyA person of overwhelming sweetness rather than bitter tang;That\u2019s where my religion liesBelieving that my world,This reality I\u2019m graced with is one of leniencyThat inside of my life there is softness to be toldMaybe there\u2019s something other than the sour tellings of misfortuneAnd I too can be forgiven Gracie Belk is an emerging writer from Lancaster, SC. She has published works in The Bittermelon Review and Red Clay Journal. She is also the creative director for Garnet &amp; Black magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3072","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}