{"id":13654,"date":"2017-06-03T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=13654"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:27:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:27:12","slug":"angelica-krikler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/angelica-krikler\/","title":{"rendered":"Angelica Krikler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Nature<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Plants grow out of her eyes<br \/>\nBecause all she sees in him is the beauty of nature<br \/>\nThe chants she stops in her day to listen to<br \/>\nThe air she exhales<br \/>\nAnd the mud she wipes from her feet<br \/>\nBut nature is a vicious cycle<br \/>\nTwo seas mix, the water never settles<br \/>\nEndlessly floating from the plaits in her hair and the sandy pebbles on the shore<br \/>\nLike the granules in a coffee pot<br \/>\nWeight on shoulders<br \/>\nHands on the small of her back<br \/>\nMagnetic air between mouths<br \/>\nOne day she\u2019ll know what to spend her money on<br \/>\nOne day she\u2019ll know how to reply<br \/>\nShe will lift up the old carpet<br \/>\nDragging a tree away from its roots<br \/>\nRealising soon that sometimes nature must be cut away<br \/>\nIn order to see the daylight<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"m_-2720139622022003602AppleMailSignature\"><strong>Angelica Krikler<\/strong> is 16, lives in Essex and writes fiction and poetry outside of school. Her poem &#8216;Bacteria&#8217; was published on the online <em>Y-Magazine<\/em> and another poem &#8216;Cleopatra&#8217; is published in the latest issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/morphrog.com\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/morphrog.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1492417235613000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG9XOz7gF6cidTqnPQMmphR_r0qyA\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">morphrog.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo ajU\">\n<div id=\":vy\" class=\"ajR\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Show trimmed content\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ajT\" src=\"https:\/\/ssl.gstatic.com\/ui\/v1\/icons\/mail\/images\/cleardot.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; \u00a0Nature Plants grow out of her eyes Because all she sees in him is the beauty of nature The chants she stops in her day to listen to The air she exhales And the mud she wipes from her feet But nature is a vicious cycle Two seas mix, the water 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":[136,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13654","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\/13654","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=13654"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23839,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13654\/revisions\/23839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}