{"id":12707,"date":"2017-04-10T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=12707"},"modified":"2017-04-10T07:24:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T07:24:20","slug":"12707","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/12707\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Maris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>spring rain<br \/>\nan old letter<br \/>\nunfolded again<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>home town<br \/>\nIn the familiar houses<br \/>\nstrangers<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>first frost<br \/>\ni give a beggar<br \/>\nnothing<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>empty beach<br \/>\nmy ear to a conch<br \/>\nhears your whisper<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>open sky<br \/>\nthe sea claims the sand<br \/>\nunder my feet<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>bus stop<br \/>\nthe old man<br \/>\nnever gets on<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anna Maris<\/strong> is a Swedish haiku poet, journalist and educator. She has won a number of international awards for her short poems. Her third poetry collection, <em>lifedeathetc\/livd\u00f6detc,<\/em> her first in English, was just published by Red Moon Press in America.\u00a0 Website<a href=\"https:\/\/annamaris.wordpress.com\/\">\/blog: http:\/\/annamaris.wordpress.com<\/a><br \/>\nTo order: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmoonpress.com\/catalog\/product_info.php?cPath=32&amp;products_id=237\">www.redmoonpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; spring rain an old letter unfolded again &#8211; home town In the familiar houses strangers &#8211; first frost i give a beggar nothing &#8211; empty beach my ear to a conch hears your whisper &#8211; open sky the sea claims the sand under my feet &#8211; bus stop the old man never [&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-12707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12707","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=12707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13541,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12707\/revisions\/13541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}