{"id":12197,"date":"2016-12-02T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=12197"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T13:43:11","slug":"anna-cates-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/anna-cates-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Cates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*<\/p>\n<p>old farmhouse<\/p>\n<p>wet snow falls<\/p>\n<p>on the backs of pigs<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>sun-bleached cattle bones<\/p>\n<p>a dung beetle burrows<\/p>\n<p>in the midden<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>shady forests<\/p>\n<p>swallowed whole by fire<\/p>\n<p>one charred acorn<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>waning rose<\/p>\n<p>an ant bears<\/p>\n<p>my burden<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>arriving<\/p>\n<p>from the first world<\/p>\n<p>I am an alien<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>the sun<\/p>\n<p>never losing its turn\u2014<\/p>\n<p>how sweat feeds rivers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1443913142983_13851\" class=\"\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1443913142983_13728\" class=\"\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1443913142983_13730\" class=\"\"><\/span><\/span><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1443913142983_13853\" class=\"\">Anna Cates resides in Ohio and teaches in <span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1443913142983_13855\" class=\"\">an online M.F.A. in creative writing program<\/span>.<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1443913142983_13857\" class=\"\">\u00a0 <\/span>A regular contributor to literary publications, her first full length collection of haiku and other poems, <em>The Meaning of Life,<\/em> is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Meaning-Life-Anna-Cates\/dp\/8182536138\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon.com<\/a>. Anna is also in the\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1443913142983_13744\" class=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/livinghaikuanthology.com\/poet-portfolios\/290-c-poets\/anna-cates.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Living Haiku Anthology<\/a><\/span>.<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1443913142983_13859\" class=\"\"> <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1443913142983_13742\" class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1443913142983_13748\" class=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* old farmhouse wet snow falls on the backs of pigs * sun-bleached cattle bones a dung beetle burrows in the midden * shady forests swallowed whole by fire one charred acorn * waning rose an ant bears my burden * arriving from the first world I am an alien * the sun never losing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haibun-tanka-haiku-haiga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12197","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12197"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24014,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12197\/revisions\/24014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}