{"id":12486,"date":"2017-03-04T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=12486"},"modified":"2016-11-01T17:03:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T17:03:35","slug":"helen-may-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/helen-may-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen May Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>from<\/em> <strong>Cancer Diary 2<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">20 May 2015 10:54:\u00a0 the crazy logic of my dreamscape lingers to mid-morning<\/span><\/p>\n<p>the brown bowl is cracked<br \/>\ncrazed down its left side \u2014<br \/>\nI unpack my life<\/p>\n<p>next in my luggage \u2014<br \/>\nthe delicate cardigan<br \/>\nunravels before my eyes<\/p>\n<p>so we pitch our tent<br \/>\non the hilltop \u2014 views for miles \u2014<br \/>\nnot in the teeming maze of<br \/>\nout-lets\u00a0\u00a0 sit-ins\u00a0 \u00a0take-aways<\/p>\n<p>alongside us<br \/>\na pale-blue Ford popular<br \/>\nwith three passengers \u2014<br \/>\nas we pitch our old green tent<br \/>\ntwo women lean in to kiss<\/p>\n<p>awake I realise<br \/>\nthat was my mother\u2019s first car \u2014<br \/>\nbut whose was the kiss?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">23 May 2015 ?pondering a conversation with the artist Andrea Kelland<\/span><br \/>\nmeeting each deadline<br \/>\nsnapshots of my life \u2014<br \/>\n&amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspirinworks.com\/lasix-water-pill\/\">buy furosemide no rx<\/a> that final deadline waits<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">26 May 2015 06:00: ?anxiety dream on waking<\/span><br \/>\ndark deep concave pit<br \/>\nwitness friable walls crumble \u2014<br \/>\npitch in &amp; fill it<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">06:59:\u00a0 hope prevails over mug of green tea<\/span><br \/>\nmy aquilegia<br \/>\ngreat-great-grandchildren<br \/>\nof those Denny grew<br \/>\ntwo mutations have emerged:<br \/>\ndeepest rose &amp; darkest purple<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">04 June 2015?at the histology clinic<\/span><br \/>\nthose pretty pink tufts<br \/>\nwe excised &amp; cauterised\u00a0 \u2014<br \/>\nmere inflammation<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Helen May Williams<\/strong> wrote haiku everyday throughout 2015. During 2016, she is completing her mother\u2019s Memoirs, including the transcription of the diary she kept during World War 2, while she worked at Bletchley Park. Her poetry chapbook, Princess of Vix, is due for publication in January 2017.<br \/>\nhelenmaywilliams.wordpress.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; from Cancer Diary 2 20 May 2015 10:54:\u00a0 the crazy logic of my dreamscape lingers to mid-morning the brown bowl is cracked crazed down its left side \u2014 I unpack my life next in my luggage \u2014 the delicate cardigan unravels before my eyes so we pitch our tent on the hilltop \u2014 [&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-12486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486","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=12486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12487,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486\/revisions\/12487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}