{"id":13401,"date":"2017-04-26T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T08:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=13401"},"modified":"2017-03-16T15:23:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T15:23:36","slug":"kate-noakes-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/kate-noakes-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Noakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am wearing layers and do not shiver<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thin light. You expect me to kneel down<br \/>\nand put my head on the block.<\/p>\n<p>Legend: Anne Boleyn was given the mercy<br \/>\nof a sharp sword, and skill, a swift blow.<\/p>\n<p>A trial where the witch is not allowed to speak.<br \/>\nSomething mediaeval in your methods.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome foregone. A show for your conscience<br \/>\nwhere history\u2019s rewritten in a hurry. A conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Legend: It took two goes to sever Mary, Queen<br \/>\nof Scot\u2019s head from her neck. Chop. Chop.<\/p>\n<p>A trump of lies. A packed-up charge sheet.<br \/>\nThe impossibility of proving the positive.<\/p>\n<p>The possibility of disproving the negative.<br \/>\nScience has it so.<\/p>\n<p>Legend: Marie-Antoinette apologized<br \/>\nfor treading on her executioner\u2019s toe.<\/p>\n<p>You were given plenty of rope, but<br \/>\ndidn\u2019t treat me like a queen.<\/p>\n<p>The failed hangman keeps the boots.<br \/>\nBe ready with the polish.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kate Noakes<\/strong>\u2018 fifth collection is <em>Tattoo on Crow Street<\/em> (Parthian, 2015). Her website (<a href=\"http:\/\/boomslangpoetry.blogspot.com\">boomslangpoetry.blogspot.com<\/a>) is archived by the National Library of Wales. She was elected to the Welsh Academy in 2011. She lives between Paris and London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I am wearing layers and do not shiver Thin light. You expect me to kneel down and put my head on the block. Legend: Anne Boleyn was given the mercy of a sharp sword, and skill, a swift blow. A trial where the witch is not allowed to speak. Something mediaeval in your methods. [&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-13401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13401","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=13401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13403,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13401\/revisions\/13403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}