{"id":11817,"date":"2016-09-15T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=11817"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:13:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:13:28","slug":"sarah-passingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/sarah-passingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Passingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lineage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Then take one end to draw it close<br \/>\naround my shoulders. Let it flow<br \/>\nlike a mountain burn about my neck but<br \/>\nleave at least an inch below my lips<br \/>\nwhere speech denies the thistle.<br \/>\nThey say the best pulls through a wedding band,<br \/>\nbut this is plaid.<\/p>\n<p>Bunch it, grow it kraken-like, pleated,<br \/>\ntartened into that twilled, hidden part of me,<br \/>\nmade from heather and peat-smoked whisky,<br \/>\noatmeal and sheep. Fasten it with a silver clan pin.<br \/>\nBellow my name Fortune like a red stag in rut,<br \/>\ndancing on a Cap of Maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Throw Campbell and Douglas battles around<br \/>\nmy shoulders. Let them fold against the weather,<br \/>\nstorm-proofed and heavy as the granite hills. Show me<br \/>\nskirling in the wind, sloughing off brine-hurled surf<br \/>\nagainst the island cliffs. Show me wild.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sarah Passingham<\/strong> has published three books of non-fiction and a libretto. Her collection, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/191041302X\/ref=nosim?tag=inswte0f-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Hoad and Other Stories<\/em><\/a> was published in 2014. She began writing poetry to improve her prose, then found she couldn\u2019t stop. Twitter: @Sarahsarie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lineage Then take one end to draw it close around my shoulders. Let it flow like a mountain burn about my neck but leave at least an inch below my lips where speech denies the thistle. They say the best pulls through a wedding band, but this is plaid. Bunch it, grow [&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-11817","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\/11817","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=11817"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23836,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817\/revisions\/23836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}