{"id":11244,"date":"2021-12-09T06:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=11244"},"modified":"2026-02-02T00:00:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T00:00:43","slug":"dinner-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/sparks\/dinner-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Memorable writing that sparks imagination. Lean in. Hear the writer\u2019s voice on the page.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dinner Lines<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By M.A. Dooley<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Empty lines without a script,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two old lovers sit stiff like bricks<\/p>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Empty lines planked blue wood top,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inviting ages of warmth and weight.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Warmth and weight, young bricks cool,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Purpose wanted held at bay.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Warmth and weight, mason\u2019s hands<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stack staggered bonds, build a wall.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Build a wall, the server piles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flowers, wine, the table splits.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Build a wall to be broken down<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With drink, pleasure, taste and texture.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Taste and texture laughter blooms,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edges soften like molten stone.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Taste and texture spills red wine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dripping, seeping fills empty lines.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Empty lines, hushed hands held,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Old lovers\u2019 warmth and weight meld.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M.A. Dooley<\/strong> is an architect and writer from the Santa Cruz Mountains, Sonoma County, and the Sierra Nevadas. Dooley has been published in&nbsp;<em>The Write Spot:<\/em> <em>Musings and Ravings in a Pandemic Year <\/em>and&nbsp;<em>Poems of a Modern Day Architect, Archhive Books, <\/em>2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memorable writing that sparks imagination. Lean in. Hear the writer\u2019s voice on the page. Dinner Lines By M.A. Dooley Empty lines without a script, Two old lovers sit stiff like bricks &nbsp; Empty lines planked blue wood top, Inviting ages of warmth and weight. &nbsp; Warmth and weight, young bricks cool, Purpose wanted held at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-post-with-comments","format":"standard","meta":{"selected_specialist_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2551,2546],"class_list":["post-11244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sparks","tag-m-a-dooley","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15342,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11244\/revisions\/15342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}