{"id":10834,"date":"2016-05-04T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=10834"},"modified":"2016-04-25T15:08:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T15:08:43","slug":"gareth-spark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/gareth-spark\/","title":{"rendered":"Gareth Spark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A picture of the Carrer Pescadors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A photo of my old street, in the rain;<br \/>\nSandstone grim, the summer&#8217;s sudden<br \/>\nTreachery marked upon it<br \/>\nAs knuckles dent a cheek.<\/p>\n<p>I can feel the weight of that sky<br \/>\nWet treasure, and the trees, pushed by<br \/>\nThe downpour<br \/>\nOver the shining street&#8217;s mirror<br \/>\nAre like wet-haired dancers<\/p>\n<p>Exhausted and weeping<br \/>\nIn the storm&#8217;s dark.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gareth Spark&#8217;<\/strong>s short fiction and poetry appears widely on- line and in the small presses. He reviews poetry for <em>Fjords Review<\/em>, among others. \u00a0He lives and works in Whitby, Yorkshire, and his latest collection is <em>Snake Farm<\/em> (Electraglade Press).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; A picture of the Carrer Pescadors A photo of my old street, in the rain; Sandstone grim, the summer&#8217;s sudden Treachery marked upon it As knuckles dent a cheek. I can feel the weight of that sky Wet treasure, and the trees, pushed by The downpour Over the shining street&#8217;s mirror Are like [&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-10834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10834","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=10834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10836,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10834\/revisions\/10836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}