{"id":10901,"date":"2016-05-21T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=10901"},"modified":"2016-05-21T08:13:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T08:13:13","slug":"chris-hardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/chris-hardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kennel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A long night wrestling<br \/>\nin the narrow bed,<\/p>\n<p>constrained and willing<br \/>\nunder the snuffed-out bulb.<\/p>\n<p>Breeze-block wall, tin sink,<br \/>\na locked door<\/p>\n<p>to the neon lit<br \/>\nunshadowed corridor.<\/p>\n<p>We slept and woke,<br \/>\ntook it up again<\/p>\n<p>then you turned away.<br \/>\nThe uncurtained window<\/p>\n<p>let in a mist of light<br \/>\nfrom the dawn outside,<\/p>\n<p>enough to see<br \/>\nextended, swollen<\/p>\n<p>across the floor<br \/>\na black dog<\/p>\n<p>lying where<br \/>\nyou\u2019d need to tread<\/p>\n<p>if you were ever<br \/>\nto get out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Hardy<\/strong>\u2019s poems have been published widely and have won prizes. His third collection was published by Graft Poetry. Chris is in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.little-machine.com\" target=\"_blank\">LiTTLe MACHiNe<\/a>: <em>The most brilliant music and poetry band in the world<\/em>! Carol Ann Duffy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Kennel A long night wrestling in the narrow bed, constrained and willing under the snuffed-out bulb. Breeze-block wall, tin sink, a locked door to the neon lit unshadowed corridor. We slept and woke, took it up again then you turned away. The uncurtained window let in a mist of light from the [&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-10901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901","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=10901"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10978,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901\/revisions\/10978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}