{"id":12248,"date":"2016-12-06T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=12248"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T13:43:11","slug":"john-hawkhead-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/john-hawkhead-2\/","title":{"rendered":"John Hawkhead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*<\/p>\n<p>riding a pale horse<br \/>\nup the needle to a vein<br \/>\nslipping through shadows<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>another mottle<br \/>\non the back of her hand<br \/>\nthe slow IV drip<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>threads of dark crimson<br \/>\ncoiling through liquid gold<br \/>\nsunlit catheter<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Hawkhead<\/strong> is a writer of haiku and other short poetry forms. He is a recent winner of the 2016 Lincoln Underground international haiku competition and a previous winner of the Haiku Foundation\u2019s international haiku competition. His work has been published all over the world and his book of poetry and haiku <em>Witness<\/em> is available from Amazon, Barnes &amp; Noble and iTunes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* riding a pale horse up the needle to a vein slipping through shadows * another mottle on the back of her hand the slow IV drip * threads of dark crimson coiling through liquid gold sunlit catheter &nbsp; &nbsp; John Hawkhead is a writer of haiku and other short poetry forms. He is a [&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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12248","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\/12248","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=12248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12249,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12248\/revisions\/12249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}