{"id":11845,"date":"2016-09-25T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=11845"},"modified":"2016-08-08T13:33:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T13:33:43","slug":"chrissie-cuthbertson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/chrissie-cuthbertson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrissie Cuthbertson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the sauna<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are no longer<br \/>\nsurprised pleased aroused<br \/>\nby our bodies.<\/p>\n<p>In the dark heat<br \/>\nsteam is a salving poultice<br \/>\ndrawing pain.<\/p>\n<p>I see disappointments<br \/>\ntrickle down your back<br \/>\non the way to acceptance.<\/p>\n<p>My breast leaks droplets<br \/>\nof salty suffering that hang<br \/>\nthen fall between cedar slats.<\/p>\n<p>Through the silence<br \/>\nwe have become completely<br \/>\nourselves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chrissie Cuthbertson<\/strong> works as a writer and editor in Oxford and Helsinki. She read English Literature at the University of Reading and wrote Creative Writing at the University of Oxford. Her poems and short fiction pop up in various places including <em>Flash magazine, Ink, Sweat &amp; Tears <\/em>and<em> South Bank Poetry magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; In the sauna We are no longer surprised pleased aroused by our bodies. In the dark heat steam is a salving poultice drawing pain. I see disappointments trickle down your back on the way to acceptance. My breast leaks droplets of salty suffering that hang then fall between cedar slats. Through the silence [&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-11845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11845","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=11845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11846,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11845\/revisions\/11846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}