{"id":1177,"date":"2008-02-29T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2008-02-29T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T14:15:00","slug":"two-poems-by-colin-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/two-poems-by-colin-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Two poems by Colin Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"

WINE INTO WATER<\/span>
 <\/span>

this morning<\/span>
as I walked past<\/span>
the Methodist church<\/span>
whose notice board<\/span>
is always telling us<\/span>
such things as<\/span>
“Christ is everywhere”<\/span>
I saw<\/span>
two scruffily dressed<\/span>
old men with beards<\/span>
seated on the steps<\/span>
outside<\/span>
sharing a bottle<\/span>
of cider<\/span>
 <\/span>
I could only assume<\/span>
that it was Jesus<\/span>
and one of his<\/span>
disciples<\/span>
and that<\/span>
having been locked <\/span>
out of the church<\/span>
Jesus had seen fit<\/span>
to perform a variation<\/span>
of his water into wine<\/span>
miracle<\/span>
 <\/span>
yet my instincts<\/span>
told me otherwise<\/span>
 <\/span>
 <\/span>
 <\/span>

TWINS<\/span>

 <\/span>
I once worked with<\/span>
a girl called Susan<\/span>
who had an<\/span>
identical twin sister<\/span>
called Jane<\/span>
 <\/span>
except<\/span>
she was a liar<\/span>
and the twins<\/span>
were so alike<\/span>
that they were<\/span>
in fact<\/span>
one and the same<\/span>
person<\/span>
 <\/span>
I went out<\/span>
with both of them<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/font>\u2022 Colin Cross lives in Norwich (England) and has numerous poems published in small press zines throughout the UK, Europe and USA. He is a regular contributor to IS&T.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WINE INTO WATER this morningas I walked pastthe Methodist churchwhose notice boardis always telling ussuch things as“Christ is everywhere”I sawtwo scruffily dressedold men with beardsseated on the stepsoutsidesharing a bottleof cider I could only assumethat it was Jesusand one of hisdisciplesand thathaving been locked out of the churchJesus had seen fitto perform a variationof his water into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}