{"id":12159,"date":"2016-10-12T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=12159"},"modified":"2016-09-29T10:54:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T10:54:43","slug":"messages-john-kitchen-for-national-poetry-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/messages-john-kitchen-for-national-poetry-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Messages: John Kitchen for National Poetry Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>minotaur<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I monster<br \/>\ninterred in this endlessness<br \/>\n0f millstone lowest of light &amp; slimy slip<br \/>\nsnubbles and inchety scrittles<\/p>\n<p>they\u2019re poor distraction<br \/>\nI wait to feel the air waver<br \/>\nfrom prayerbleats and panic blunderings<br \/>\nso easy to track<\/p>\n<p>then come amusetime<br \/>\ntouchy with my filthy clawtip<br \/>\ntease with flylight tickle-breath till<br \/>\nhungerguts and bloodycrunch<\/p>\n<p>but it\u2019s always a chickadilly soft-being<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">no challenge-me<\/span><br \/>\nno quick-sword cleverboy to versus<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">my tooth-claw death-squash<\/span><\/p>\n<p>oh<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">this perplexes<\/span><br \/>\nnever known such a thing in before time<br \/>\nthin thready longalong winding-round-the-tunnels stuff<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">someone to me send messages <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Kitchen<\/strong>\u2019s poems have appeared in various magazines including <em>From Dusk to Dawn <\/em>and<em> Here Comes Everyone<\/em>. He is a retired headteacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; minotaur I monster interred in this endlessness 0f millstone lowest of light &amp; slimy slip snubbles and inchety scrittles they\u2019re poor distraction I wait to feel the air waver from prayerbleats and panic blunderings so easy to track then come amusetime touchy with my filthy clawtip tease with flylight tickle-breath till hungerguts and bloodycrunch [&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-12159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12159","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=12159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12160,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12159\/revisions\/12160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}