{"id":12101,"date":"2016-11-27T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=12101"},"modified":"2016-09-23T15:54:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T15:54:40","slug":"katherine-stansfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/katherine-stansfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Stansfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Klonjuze\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Say it with me, that Germanicky-Spanishy<br \/>\nword you made up to toast tea parties<br \/>\nwith cats and eyeless dolls, to celebrate<\/p>\n<p>our wins at fixed Olympics. No one<br \/>\nheard it but me back then, back when you<br \/>\nwere my sleep and I your waking. Sharing<\/p>\n<p>a room we shared a language. Now we live<br \/>\nseparately, silent in our own countries.<br \/>\nI can\u2019t hear your dream talk. If I phone<\/p>\n<p>you assume bad news, won\u2019t pick up.<br \/>\nYour tight-lipped life is yours alone.<br \/>\nI bring us back together for the end<\/p>\n<p>and see us drop the word into the scurf<br \/>\nof twigs and desiccated frogs<br \/>\nbeneath the cattle grid and leave<\/p>\n<p>without a wake, having buried<br \/>\nour way to raise a glass, to say<br \/>\nfarewell. But all of this is in my head,<\/p>\n<p>the cattle grid now on private land,<br \/>\nand besides, words don\u2019t give in,<br \/>\nlie down and die. When I\u2019m faking<\/p>\n<p>grown up in some swanky bar and some<br \/>\njoy or other requires a toast, klonjuze<br \/>\nis on my lips again. I shout it,<\/p>\n<p>scream it, hurl it at the door \u2013<br \/>\nyour word my spell to bring you<br \/>\nhere, to make you mine once more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Katherine Stansfield<\/strong>\u2019s first collection, <em>Playing House<\/em>, was published by Seren in 2014. Her poems have appeared in various publications, including as The Guardian online poem of the week. IS&amp;T published a poem as part of the 2015 Twelve Days of Christmas feature.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/katherinestansfield.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/katherinestansfield.blogspot.com\/\u00a0 <\/a>Twitter: @K_Stansfield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Klonjuze\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Say it with me, that Germanicky-Spanishy word you made up to toast tea parties with cats and eyeless dolls, to celebrate our wins at fixed Olympics. No one heard it but me back then, back when you were my sleep and I your waking. Sharing a room we shared a language. Now we live [&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-12101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12101","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=12101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12103,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12101\/revisions\/12103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}