{"id":11269,"date":"2016-07-09T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=11269"},"modified":"2016-06-25T15:15:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T15:15:49","slug":"grant-tarbard-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/grant-tarbard-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Tarbard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Little White Lie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mother has sewn a white lie into the<br \/>\nhem of my breast pocket, a finishing<br \/>\nmethod for a voodoo doll boy folded<br \/>\nnarrowly. The white lie will grow in my<br \/>\npocket as an egg, my blood will be an<br \/>\nincubator, my marrow will be fed<br \/>\nto the bones of her dead son made in me,<br \/>\na little ivory lie that scatters<br \/>\ninto the fledging feathers of a goose.<br \/>\nThe goose will merge out of my back giving<br \/>\nme the appearance of having angel<br \/>\nwings, the goose\u2019s beak pecks my cartilage.<br \/>\nThis piece of cloth is sewn to prevent the<br \/>\nunravelling of mother&#8217;s fabric heart.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Grant Tarbard<\/strong> is internationally published. His collection <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/lapwingpublications.com\/lapwing-store\/grant-tarbard\" target=\"_blank\"><em>As I Was Pulled Under the Earth<\/em>, <\/a>published by Lapwing Publications, is available now.<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/lapwingpublications.com\/lapwing-store\/grant-tarbard\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Little White Lie Mother has sewn a white lie into the hem of my breast pocket, a finishing method for a voodoo doll boy folded narrowly. The white lie will grow in my pocket as an egg, my blood will be an incubator, my marrow will be fed to the bones of [&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-11269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11269","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=11269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11271,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11269\/revisions\/11271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}