{"id":1233,"date":"2008-04-28T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2008-04-28T07:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T07:36:00","slug":"say-it-by-jesica-flowerdew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/say-it-by-jesica-flowerdew\/","title":{"rendered":"Say it – by Jesica Flowerdew"},"content":{"rendered":"

Say It<\/span>
 <\/span>

Subdue me<\/span>
Make a berry jewel<\/span>
In the furnace of your throat<\/span>
Hold it on your tongue<\/span>
Hang it in the air<\/span>
Make<\/span>
Me <\/span>
Wait,<\/span>
Roll it from there<\/span>
Into my ear.<\/span>
Make me submit,<\/span>
Start to say it<\/span>
Swallow it,<\/span>
Let the colour of the thought<\/span>
Fill the air<\/span>
A hue of desire<\/span>
A tracing.<\/span>
Translate it,<\/span>
Say it<\/span>
And<\/span>
Subdue me.<\/span>


\u2022 Jessica Flowerdew says “I've always written poems, since I was a child but I've never really been confident to do anything with them. I did an English lit A-level but didn't do very well so I've never pursued any kind of creative writing training. I'm a philosophy student, there are some great literary figures in philosophy \u2013 I particularly admire Schopenhaur's work. He wrote brilliant aphorisms, they encapsulate so much and have no formula except their shortness. I've barely shown my work to anyone but your website seems kind of anonymous and I had an unusual burst of confidence!”<\/span>

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Say It Subdue meMake a berry jewelIn the furnace of your throatHold it on your tongueHang it in the airMakeMe Wait,Roll it from thereInto my ear.Make me submit,Start to say itSwallow it,Let the colour of the thoughtFill the airA hue of desireA tracing.Translate it,Say itAndSubdue me.\u2022 Jessica Flowerdew says “I've always written poems, since I was […]<\/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-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","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=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}