{"id":11077,"date":"2016-06-24T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=11077"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:09:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:09:40","slug":"hideko-sueoka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/hideko-sueoka\/","title":{"rendered":"Hideko Sueoka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cherry Blossoms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today dark blue is my facial colour.<br \/>\nSo can you see ashy-indigo confetti?<\/p>\n<p>A cherry addict admires pale pink<br \/>\nfluttering down in lambent sunlight.<\/p>\n<p>But through the flyaway organza of misty breath,<br \/>\nmy skin hides another complexion<\/p>\n<p>that lurks on the counterfeit surface<br \/>\nin spring frolics. After catharsis of my mind,<\/p>\n<p>unknown beauty you can find in me<br \/>\nbright <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ordergenericpropeciaonline.com\">www.ordergenericpropeciaonline.com\/<\/a> blue \u2013 like cranesbill,\u00a0 grape hyacinth, catmint.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hideko Sueoka<\/strong> has been working as a translator, living in Tokyo, and was the winner of 2013 Troubadour International Poetry Competition. A recent poem was published on the online journal Stravaig issue 4: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geopoetics.org.uk\/online-journal\/stravaig-issue-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.geopoetics.org.uk\/online-journal\/stravaig-issue-4\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Cherry Blossoms Today dark blue is my facial colour. So can you see ashy-indigo confetti? A cherry addict admires pale pink fluttering down in lambent sunlight. But through the flyaway organza of misty breath, my skin hides another complexion that lurks on the counterfeit surface in spring frolics. After catharsis of my [&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-11077","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\/11077","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=11077"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23823,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11077\/revisions\/23823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}