{"id":12338,"date":"2017-01-09T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=12338"},"modified":"2016-10-31T10:05:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T10:05:21","slug":"judith-taylor-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/judith-taylor-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Judith Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Delta<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My mind is afraid of<br \/>\ndeep sleep. So much<br \/>\nthreatens it<\/p>\n<p>it won&#8217;t give up control<br \/>\nto the slow waves it makes<br \/>\nitself.<\/p>\n<p>It keeps me in the shallows<br \/>\neyes flickering<br \/>\nover what I know already<\/p>\n<p>until I surface<br \/>\nexhausted<br \/>\nout of a night of<\/p>\n<p>more of the day before<br \/>\nand feeling I haven&#8217;t dreamed<br \/>\nat all.<\/p>\n<p>I forget.<br \/>\nEven my words<br \/>\nfail me.<\/p>\n<p>When, mind<br \/>\nwill you dive deep, and bring<br \/>\npearls for my eyes again?<\/p>\n<p>Bring me your weird electric fish<br \/>\nyour coral trees<br \/>\nyour worm-encrusted gold?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Judith Taylor<\/strong> comes from Perthshire and now lives and works in Aberdeen. Her poetry has appeared widely in magazines and she is the author of two pamphlet collections &#8211; <em>Earthlight<\/em>, (Koo Press, 2006), and <em>Local Colour<\/em> (Calder Wood Press, 2010).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Delta My mind is afraid of deep sleep. So much threatens it it won&#8217;t give up control to the slow waves it makes itself. It keeps me in the shallows eyes flickering over what I know already until I surface exhausted out of a night of more of the day before and [&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-12338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12338","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=12338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12340,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12338\/revisions\/12340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}