{"id":12150,"date":"2016-10-09T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=12150"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:12:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:12:32","slug":"messages-morgaine-merch-lleuad-for-national-poetry-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/messages-morgaine-merch-lleuad-for-national-poetry-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Messages: Morgaine Merch Lleuad for National Poetry Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summer, coming to an end<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He interrupted me: Look at the bees!<br \/>\nI didn\u2019t answer, so he came and crouched<\/p>\n<p>where I lay.\u00a0 Look at them, he whispered,<br \/>\ngoing ballistic in the toadflax!\u00a0 And they were,<\/p>\n<p>busy-humming in the flowers, innocent as<br \/>\nchildren holding hands, as his smile,<\/p>\n<p>as I used to be.\u00a0 But I was watching another bumble,<br \/>\nswollen and pushing as it slippery-slid inside<\/p>\n<p>a brazen red nasturtium, achingly slow, and I<br \/>\nmelted with loss.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morgaine Merch Lleuad <\/strong>is a poet\/novelist, and lectures in poetry and creative writing at Exeter University and the OU, respectively.\u00a0 Her poetry has been published in various magazines, including <em>Orbis, The Interpreter&#8217;s House, Iota, Ink Sweat &amp; Tears <\/em>and<em> The Frogmore Papers<\/em>. Twitter: @bagpussbotherer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Summer, coming to an end He interrupted me: Look at the bees! I didn\u2019t answer, so he came and crouched where I lay.\u00a0 Look at them, he whispered, going ballistic in the toadflax!\u00a0 And they were, busy-humming in the flowers, innocent as children holding hands, as his smile, as I used to be.\u00a0 But [&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-12150","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\/12150","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=12150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12151,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150\/revisions\/12151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}