{"id":11961,"date":"2016-10-01T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T09:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=11961"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:12:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:12:33","slug":"leonardo-boix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/leonardo-boix\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo Boix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gnarled Forest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u201cYou have finished on your own<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>what no one ever started.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2015 From Diana\u2019s Tree, Alejandra Pizarnik<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I dream mother is sleeping in her ochre bedroom; herringbone parquet floors, the curtains drawn to keep the intense heat out.The room, a gnarled forest. The wallpaper cream white with tiny blue flowers in a symmetrical pattern-Lavandula Angustifolia. Two small table lamps with heavy chains on each side of her king size bed. She calls my name. I go to her room to help her get dressed. I carefully choose her gown (tropical green with prints of palm tree leaves and flowers of paradise), her striped black summer shoes, her pearl necklace, her rings. I even suggest a deep carmine red for her lipstick. She looks at the mirror and then glares at me. She tries to speak but I can\u2019t hear her. I wait while she adjusts her earrings. She knows she has been dead for more than two years. She gently touches the mirror. <em>Do I look nice in this?-<\/em>she asks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leonardo Boix<\/strong>\u00a0is a poet and international journalist from Argentina. He has lived in the UK for almost 20 years. He is the author of two collections <em>Un lugar propio<\/em>, (Letras del Sur, 2015) and Mar de noche (Letras del Sur, 2016). Both books have been published throughout Latin America. As a journalist, he has published in\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Morning Star<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Miami Herald<\/em>, as well as all the major Latin American journals and newspapers. His twitter page is @leoboix<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gnarled Forest \u00a0\u201cYou have finished on your own what no one ever started.\u201d \u2015 From Diana\u2019s Tree, Alejandra Pizarnik &nbsp; &nbsp; I dream mother is sleeping in her ochre bedroom; herringbone parquet floors, the curtains drawn to keep the intense heat out.The room, a gnarled forest. The wallpaper cream white with tiny blue flowers in [&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-11961","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\/11961","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=11961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11962,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11961\/revisions\/11962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}