{"id":11551,"date":"2016-08-01T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=11551"},"modified":"2016-07-28T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T10:20:00","slug":"sergio-ortiz-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/sergio-ortiz-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergio Ortiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Out of Time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>let\u2019s say the spider<br \/>\nmeasuring time is dead&#8211;<br \/>\nin summer,<br \/>\nhummingbirds dance<br \/>\naround your face<\/p>\n<p>let\u2019s say mannequins<br \/>\nshin up the backs<br \/>\nof ghosts in a fire&#8211;<br \/>\nyou fall flat on your ass<br \/>\nwhile listening to music<\/p>\n<p>let&#8217;s say<br \/>\nI won the race<br \/>\nand my shadow&#8211;<br \/>\nmy treacherous shadow&#8211;<br \/>\nwas my only competitor<\/p>\n<p>~~~~~~<\/p>\n<p>I sleepwalk<br \/>\non the ridge<br \/>\nof a poem<br \/>\nI\u2019ll never perform \u2026<br \/>\nthe storm inside<\/p>\n<p>you are my water,<br \/>\nthe source of my art \u2026<br \/>\nwhatever I may lose<br \/>\nit\u2019s always you<br \/>\nwearing my sunlight<\/p>\n<p>there are times<br \/>\nwhen the world is a lost<br \/>\nconnection\u2026<br \/>\nall that exists is a dead boy<br \/>\non a Palestinian street<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sergio A. Ortiz<\/strong> is the founding editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/undertowtankareview.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Undertow Tanka Review. <\/a>He lives in San Juan Puerto Rico.\u00a0 He is a four-time nominee for the Sundress Best of the Web Anthology, and a two-time Pushcart nominee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Out of Time let\u2019s say the spider measuring time is dead&#8211; in summer, hummingbirds dance around your face let\u2019s say mannequins shin up the backs of ghosts in a fire&#8211; you fall flat on your ass while listening to music let&#8217;s say I won the race and my shadow&#8211; my treacherous shadow&#8211; was [&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-11551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11551","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=11551"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11554,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11551\/revisions\/11554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}