{"product_id":"notemp","title":"NOTES FROM A RAGGED SELF — 24 Poems, by Martha Patterson","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 36 pages, from \u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eForgotten Anniversary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eAs they sped through Maine on their way to a vacation My parents passed a small hotel – a forgotten refuge. Ella Fitzgerald, a favorite, was on the radio – sweet tones of “Dream a Little Dream of Me.” Dad sighed with pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e“Oh!” exclaimed my mother, “That place is where we spent Our honeymoon 30 years ago!” …And Dad, wistful, drove on. “So that’s why last week you asked me,” my chastened mother said, “If I’d rather do dinner out, or instead be given a new nightgown!”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eAnd Ella and Louis Armstrong continued on the radio, Stars shining bright like memories inside my parents’ car. “It was something like that,” said my father, used to Mom’s Forgetfulness. “Sorry – our anniversary escaped me,” she wailed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eBut in regret she gave him a little kiss of fondness and Kept dreaming of the past, when they’d danced cheek to cheek, And the radio kept playing and they finished their vacation, Happy, like the future-thinking lovers they once were.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Martha Patterson","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":67956068090171,"sku":"NOTEMP","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":67956068122939,"sku":"NOTEMPe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/notes_cover.png?v=1794614692","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/notemp","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}