{"id":11858,"date":"2016-09-29T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=11858"},"modified":"2016-08-08T13:58:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T13:58:39","slug":"felix-purat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/felix-purat\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Purat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>H<em>ot Coffee For Hot Days<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; For the Caf\u00e9 Mediterraneum, Berkeley, CA<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My readied latte<br \/>\nlazes on a sun-soaked,<br \/>\nsugarcoated counter<br \/>\nwhose marble mimes<br \/>\nof Kennecott malachite,<br \/>\none among a straightened row<br \/>\nof caff\u00e9 lattes venting steam,<br \/>\nawaiting their respective persons<br \/>\nof purchase hiding<br \/>\ninside stuffy washrooms<br \/>\nwiping sweat from<br \/>\ntheir porous backsides<br \/>\nwith towelettes soaked<br \/>\nin Calabrian citrus<br \/>\nthat could have come from KFC<br \/>\nif there was still one left<br \/>\nin Berkeley, California;<\/p>\n<p>so claims the barista,<br \/>\nwho daydreams of Piedmont<br \/>\nwhere the gianduia grows,<br \/>\nromantic daydreams that follow<br \/>\na soaking in the summer sauna<br \/>\nof perspiring thoughts<br \/>\nfirst innovated in the depths<br \/>\nof Finnish forests;<br \/>\nor, vielleicht,<br \/>\nduring early afternoons,<br \/>\nmeditating inside the Mediterraneum<br \/>\nhalfway into<br \/>\na globally warmed month of May,<br \/>\ndrinking hot coffee on hot days<br \/>\nas consumers of the Ethiopian drug<br \/>\nobserve the Telegraph Avenue peoples,<br \/>\nnever seeming to mind<br \/>\ntheir own damned business<br \/>\nin the granny smith apples of<br \/>\ntheir nonchalant eyes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Felix Purat<\/strong> lives in Europe. He has been previously published in <em>Paris\/Atlantic, Poetry Salzburg Review<\/em> and <em>Pulsar.<\/em> Felix has just completed a pamphlet of poems and a novella.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Coffee For Hot Days &#8211; For the Caf\u00e9 Mediterraneum, Berkeley, CA My readied latte lazes on a sun-soaked, sugarcoated counter whose marble mimes of Kennecott malachite, one among a straightened row of caff\u00e9 lattes venting steam, awaiting their respective persons of purchase hiding inside stuffy washrooms wiping sweat from their porous backsides with towelettes [&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-11858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858","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=11858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11859,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858\/revisions\/11859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}