{"id":10516,"date":"2016-04-22T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=10516"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:05:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:05:32","slug":"stuart-charlesworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/stuart-charlesworth\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuart Charlesworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>But During the Medicine Round<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A tablet missed the medicine pot<br \/>\nand skittered across the clinic room floor.<\/p>\n<p>I picked it up, rolled it between my fingers.<\/p>\n<p>It was not a gelatine pod or a chalky pill.<br \/>\nThin, leathery roots hung from its bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Two small leaves were fighting<br \/>\nto emerge<br \/>\nfrom the manufacturers stamp.<\/p>\n<p>I closed my fist around it<br \/>\nand my mind\u2019s eye<br \/>\nlooked out on a fresh tilled field<\/p>\n<p>where a hundred plants<br \/>\nused their leaves<br \/>\nas arms<br \/>\nto climb from furrows.<\/p>\n<p>Serpent vines leaped to choke and bite them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stuart Charlesworth<\/strong>\u2019s poems have appeared in <em>Cake, Lighthouse, Poetry Review <\/em>and<em> Under the Radar<\/em>. He is a learning difficulties nurse and sometimes an associate tutor for student nurses. He has an MA in creative writing (UEA) and degrees in nursing and international politics. He is a Caf\u00e9 Writers Committee member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; But During the Medicine Round A tablet missed the medicine pot and skittered across the clinic room floor. I picked it up, rolled it between my fingers. It was not a gelatine pod or a chalky pill. Thin, leathery roots hung from its bottom. Two small leaves were fighting to emerge from [&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-10516","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\/10516","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=10516"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10522,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516\/revisions\/10522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}