{"id":13620,"date":"2017-05-25T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=13620"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:28:00","slug":"beth-mcdonough-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/beth-mcdonough-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Beth McDonough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Aegopodium podagraria<\/em><\/strong><strong>, a Praise Song.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, I\u2019ll choose to love<br \/>\nthis bishop weed\u2019s<br \/>\nefficiency.<\/p>\n<p>I shall admire<br \/>\nhis knit-wire roots,<br \/>\ntenacious crazing<br \/>\ntangle- down<br \/>\nto anybody\u2019s<br \/>\nHades.<\/p>\n<p>I will hymn<br \/>\nsome centurion\u2019s aromatic<br \/>\nsalad \u2013 grab<br \/>\nthat verve and grist,<br \/>\nsalute its Gallovidian indefatigability<br \/>\nRoman invincibility,<br \/>\nroaming in Scotland\u2019s slushing wet<br \/>\nor three-month frost.<\/p>\n<p>I will now shout<br \/>\nexactly how to pound<br \/>\ntasty wild-form pesto, not accept<br \/>\nsome basil-puny<br \/>\nimposter from<br \/>\nthe Co.<\/p>\n<p>I can sing at starry undie whites<br \/>\nof fecund umbel flowers,<br \/>\nencourage them to sprint<br \/>\nto seed \u2013 should\u00a0 their under-<br \/>\nsoil capilliaries prove<br \/>\nsystematically<br \/>\ninadequate. I\u2019d hate<br \/>\nto be unable to worship<br \/>\nthis mighty<br \/>\nbishop weed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beth McDonough<\/strong>\u2019s poetry appears in <em>Gutter, Antiphon<\/em> and elsewhere; she reviews in <em>DURA<\/em>. Her pamphlet <em>Handfast<\/em> with Ruth Aylett (2016, Mother\u2019s Milk Books, available on Amazon UK) explores family experiences \u2013 Aylett\u2019s of dementia and McDonough\u2019s of autism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Aegopodium podagraria, a Praise Song. &nbsp; Now, I\u2019ll choose to love this bishop weed\u2019s efficiency. I shall admire his knit-wire roots, tenacious crazing tangle- down to anybody\u2019s Hades. I will hymn some centurion\u2019s aromatic salad \u2013 grab that verve and grist, salute its Gallovidian indefatigability Roman invincibility, roaming in Scotland\u2019s slushing wet [&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-13620","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\/13620","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=13620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13939,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13620\/revisions\/13939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}