{"id":10462,"date":"2016-04-08T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=10462"},"modified":"2016-03-29T10:16:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T10:16:40","slug":"sally-festing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/sally-festing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sally Festing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fig<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><br \/>\nWhat happens in the alleys<\/p>\n<p>of the multiple green<\/p>\n<p>dark womb \u2028of a fig\u2019s synconia? Home<\/p>\n<p>for a tiny wasp to lay eggs<\/p>\n<p>in convoluted penetrations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gulping dream-eaters hatch.<\/p>\n<p>As new wasps<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">they fossick, lure,<\/p>\n<p>and in the swollen presence of the forest<\/p>\n<p>spread their shady sex.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sally Festing<\/strong>\u2019s writings include two Penguin Biographies and radio plays based on poems.<em> Salaams<\/em> was published by Happenstance; <em>Font<\/em>, and a full collection from Oversteps will be out in 2016. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyfesting.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.sallyfesting.info<\/a>) She runs Saltmarsh Poetry in North Norfolk\u2019s Burnhams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Fig What happens in the alleys of the multiple green dark womb \u2028of a fig\u2019s synconia? Home for a tiny wasp to lay eggs in convoluted penetrations. &nbsp; Gulping dream-eaters hatch. As new wasps they fossick, lure, and in the swollen presence of the forest spread their shady sex. &nbsp; &nbsp; Sally [&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-10462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462","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=10462"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10466,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462\/revisions\/10466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}