{"id":1227,"date":"2008-04-22T12:15:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T12:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2008-04-22T12:15:34","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T12:15:34","slug":"three-pieces-by-matthew-howard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/three-pieces-by-matthew-howard\/","title":{"rendered":"Three pieces by Matthew Howard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Little<\/span>


I saw the last-gasped<\/span>
feather-weighted<\/span>

            \u2018O\u2019<\/span>

written by a shower<\/span>
of little quills<\/span>
cooling at the tips.<\/span>
<\/span>
The tin-god voice <\/span>
on the radio <\/span>
sang along with my own,<\/span>
numb and as low as tyres.<\/span>


~ ~ ~ ~ ~<\/span>


Lash<\/span>


An eyelash pressed in a book<\/span>
catches my breath with the clinch<\/span>
of its perfect line break.<\/span>


~ ~ ~ ~ ~<\/span>


Buttonholed <\/span>


The boyish bridegroom\u2019s button-hole red as his razor-burned cheeks; no top hat, no length in his tales.<\/span>



\u2022 Matthew Howard works in the insurance industry in Norwich and, along with providing IS&T with some much appreciated book reviews, is also reading for an MA in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.<\/span>

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LittleI saw the last-gaspedfeather-weighted            \u2018O\u2019written by a showerof little quillscooling at the tips.The tin-god voice on the radio sang along with my own,numb and as low as tyres.~ ~ ~ ~ ~LashAn eyelash pressed in a bookcatches my breath with the clinchof its perfect line break.~ ~ ~ ~ ~Buttonholed The boyish bridegroom\u2019s button-hole red […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}