{"id":10447,"date":"2016-04-05T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=10447"},"modified":"2016-03-29T09:08:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T09:08:44","slug":"gill-mcevoy-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/gill-mcevoy-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Gill McEvoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>When You Thought I was Dying<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If a candle\u2019s lit inside this bowl<br \/>\nthe patterns on its belly grow\u00a0 \u2014<\/p>\n<p>those painted leaves,<br \/>\nthat silver lily<br \/>\nthat looks from here<br \/>\nlike a cabbage rose.<\/p>\n<p>(Cabbage roses bloomed on<br \/>\nthe papered walls of our first flat.<br \/>\nYellowing.)<\/p>\n<p>I took lilies to your great-aunt once.<br \/>\nAs I glanced back at her window<br \/>\nshe was bending over,<br \/>\nfeeding them to the fire.<\/p>\n<p>You gave me this bowl<br \/>\nwhen you thought I was dying.<br \/>\nI can\u2019t give it back.<br \/>\nI can\u2019t burn it.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t even tell you how<br \/>\nit scares me<br \/>\nhalf to death.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gill McEvoy<\/strong>\u00a0is a Hawthornden Fellow. Her second Cinnamon Press collection is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinnamonpress.com\/rise\/\"><strong>\u00a0<em>Rise<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 ( 2013.) Gill runs many poetry events in Chester where she lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; When You Thought I was Dying If a candle\u2019s lit inside this bowl the patterns on its belly grow\u00a0 \u2014 those painted leaves, that silver lily that looks from here like a cabbage rose. (Cabbage roses bloomed on the papered walls of our first flat. Yellowing.) I took lilies to your great-aunt [&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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10447","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=10447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10449,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10447\/revisions\/10449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}