{"id":12052,"date":"2016-11-06T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=12052"},"modified":"2016-09-23T14:08:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T14:08:05","slug":"roberta-verdant-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/roberta-verdant-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberta Verdant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not Atlas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sun says: just keep going.<br \/>\nAs day follows night,<br \/>\none foot in front of the other.<br \/>\nHere\u2019s your sky candle.<\/p>\n<p>The sky says: I\u2019ll wrap<br \/>\nall around you.<br \/>\nKeep you safe, keep you free.<br \/>\nSpread your wings;<br \/>\nI\u2019ve got you.<\/p>\n<p>The earth says:<br \/>\nsink down into my belly.<br \/>\nYou are allowed to rest.<br \/>\nYou need this til<br \/>\nday follows night.<br \/>\nSurrender.<\/p>\n<p>The moon says: I\u2019m whole now.<br \/>\nGo to sleep now, I am ready.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve been waiting forever,<br \/>\nThe whole cosmos will hold you,<br \/>\nThe stars are quiet.<br \/>\nYour feet are heavy;<br \/>\nthe sky is full.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roberta Verdant<\/strong> lives in the UK. She swims in rivers, animal-whispers and blogs for The Huffington Post. She plans to train as a death midwife. <a href=\"http:\/\/robertaverdant.com\/\">RobertaVerdant.com <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Not Atlas The sun says: just keep going. As day follows night, one foot in front of the other. Here\u2019s your sky candle. The sky says: I\u2019ll wrap all around you. Keep you safe, keep you free. Spread your wings; I\u2019ve got you. The earth says: sink down into my belly. You [&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-12052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12052","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=12052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12054,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12052\/revisions\/12054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}