{"id":12357,"date":"2017-01-17T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=12357"},"modified":"2016-10-31T10:53:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T10:53:49","slug":"steve-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/steve-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Smart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Present in Scent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the evening darkness<br \/>\nYou tap recent grace notes.<\/p>\n<p>Singing moments more clearly<br \/>\nThan the instant of a bulb.<\/p>\n<p>Coffee smooth as an unguent<br \/>\nHeralds near satisfactions.<\/p>\n<p>The air dilutes her presence<br \/>\nUntil a key click blooms with return.<\/p>\n<p>If we shared a language<br \/>\nThe words would still be silent.<\/p>\n<p>Scents of slow time shadowing,<br \/>\nThis longer minded now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Smart<\/strong> is a poet and visual artist living in Scotland. He has been involved in a broad range of creative disciplines over time, collaborating with artists, performers, scientists, and others in a wide variety of fields. Web site: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.co.uk\/sds\">http:\/\/www.artsci.co.uk\/sds <\/a>Poetry Blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/stevedsmart.wordpress.com\">http:\/\/stevedsmart.wordpress.com <\/a>Twitter:@steveDsmart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Present in Scent In the evening darkness You tap recent grace notes. Singing moments more clearly Than the instant of a bulb. Coffee smooth as an unguent Heralds near satisfactions. The air dilutes her presence Until a key click blooms with return. If we shared a language The words would still be [&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-12357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12357","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=12357"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13102,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12357\/revisions\/13102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}