{"id":12491,"date":"2017-03-05T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=12491"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:27:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:27:30","slug":"kim-whysall-hammond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/kim-whysall-hammond\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Whysall-Hammond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Broken cable<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the middle of the bright Atlantic<br \/>\nFloating on the swell between island volcanoes<br \/>\nLooking past reflective surface tension<br \/>\nTo silvered gas bubbles beneath catching the light<\/p>\n<p>And across the issuing rift<\/p>\n<p>A long snake of data cable<br \/>\nBroken sheared twisted.<\/p>\n<p>As the gas breaks the surface<br \/>\nWe hear voices<br \/>\nBlogs bubbling to the top<br \/>\nInstructions to buy or sell<br \/>\nA thousand tiny voices<br \/>\nSparkling in the sunshine<br \/>\nSeveral parrot fish swim by<br \/>\nNext day when snorkelling<br \/>\nI fancy I hear fish blogging<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kim Whysall-Hammond<\/strong> is a scientist by training, an IT manager by profession and a poet by necessity. She\u2019s found that she is can be struck by beauty in what others consider very odd places.\u00a0 She shares poems at <a href=\"https:\/\/thecheesesellerswife.wordpress.com\/\">https:\/\/thecheesesellerswife.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Broken cable In the middle of the bright Atlantic Floating on the swell between island volcanoes Looking past reflective surface tension To silvered gas bubbles beneath catching the light And across the issuing rift A long snake of data cable Broken sheared twisted. As the gas breaks the surface We hear voices Blogs [&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":[136,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491","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=12491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13510,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491\/revisions\/13510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}