{"id":11081,"date":"2016-06-11T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=11081"},"modified":"2016-06-09T12:47:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T12:47:40","slug":"kitty-coles-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/kitty-coles-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitty Coles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Invalid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leaves, like raindrops,<br \/>\nshiver the teal pool&#8217;s surface.<\/p>\n<p>Airflow lifts gooseflesh<br \/>\non my bony arm.<\/p>\n<p>The woods arc up,<br \/>\na cavern of hushy voices.<\/p>\n<p>I limp and stumble<br \/>\non paths made veiny by roots.<\/p>\n<p>You take my hand, still bruised<br \/>\nwith blackberry stipples.<\/p>\n<p>I try to thank you;<br \/>\ngravel weights my tongue.<\/p>\n<p>These days are blanks.<br \/>\nI will remember nothing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kitty Coles<\/strong> lives in Surrey and has been writing since she was a child.\u00a0 Her poems have appeared in magazines including <em>Mslexia, Iota, South, Obsessed With Pipework, The Interpreter&#8217;s House, The Frogmore Papers <\/em>and<em> Brittle Star.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Invalid Leaves, like raindrops, shiver the teal pool&#8217;s surface. Airflow lifts gooseflesh on my bony arm. The woods arc up, a cavern of hushy voices. I limp and stumble on paths made veiny by roots. You take my hand, still bruised with blackberry stipples. I try to thank you; gravel weights 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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081","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=11081"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11084,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081\/revisions\/11084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}