{"id":10087,"date":"2016-02-13T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=10087"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:07:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:07:53","slug":"robin-houghton-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/robin-houghton-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Houghton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tying\u00a0the bowline<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Slipped back on itself through the first\u00a0loop, the rope<br \/>\nforms a round window. You\u2019re halfway in.\u00a0Slick<br \/>\nas a snake charmer you guide your needle\u00a0point<\/p>\n<p>to pierce the eye, that tooth-shaped space,\u00a0as words<br \/>\nunravel me until nothing is real:\u00a0half-hitch, hangman,<br \/>\nhammock\u00a0knot, and your unflinching fingers spread<\/p>\n<p>to show your workings. Then comes the twist\u00a0\u2013 like\u00a0this,<br \/>\nthen\u00a0that,\u00a0your shape-shift hands have me tongue-tied<br \/>\nto the end and again, and again I miss how\u00a0you do it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Robin Houghton<\/strong> has been widely published in magazines. She won the 2013 Hamish Canham Prize and the 2014 Stanza Competition. Pamphlet:\u00a0 <em>The Great Vowel Shift<\/em> (Telltale Press, 2014). Blog:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk\/<\/a> Twitter: @robinhoughton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Tying\u00a0the bowline Slipped back on itself through the first\u00a0loop, the rope forms a round window. You\u2019re halfway in.\u00a0Slick as a snake charmer you guide your needle\u00a0point to pierce the eye, that tooth-shaped space,\u00a0as words unravel me until nothing is real:\u00a0half-hitch, hangman, hammock\u00a0knot, and your unflinching fingers spread to show your workings. Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[135,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10087"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23813,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087\/revisions\/23813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}