{"id":13681,"date":"2017-06-13T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=13681"},"modified":"2017-04-16T12:46:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T12:46:15","slug":"charlie-baylis-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/charlie-baylis-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Baylis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Untitled<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>for the many ghosts of the Mediterranean, for those that remain unknown<\/em><br \/>\nI want to take you down to the beach<br \/>\nI want to offer you its silence, where you are hanging<br \/>\nunder the palms there are phantoms, the phantoms are smiling<br \/>\nI want to show you the coral shelves where we buried your body<br \/>\nI want to show you each life I swallowed to maintain the colour of my light cart<br \/>\nI have done it all to ensure my little girl wears the same shoes as your little girl<br \/>\nsometimes, more or less, I have been wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I want to tell you why I ate bread when you were eating air<br \/>\nI want to tell you at the same time as you want to tell me<br \/>\nthat you want me to tell you, but anyway, sorry, I am busy.<\/p>\n<p>I am riding on a wave peppering my light cart with holes. I am trying to drown<br \/>\nthousands of people. I am trying to drown.<\/p>\n<p>I am trying. Look closer (there is a word missing).<\/p>\n<p>I want to take you down to the beach<br \/>\nwhere I have tied the archangels to the palm trees<br \/>\nheavy ropes chafe their feathered waists, the match strikes.<\/p>\n<p><em>I want to show you that the angels are burning.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I cannot show you, you are not looking.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Charlie Baylis<\/strong> is from Nottingham. He has published two pamphlets <i>Elizabeth<\/i> (agave press) and <i>hilda doolittle\u00b4s carl jung t-shirt<\/i> (erbacce). He spends his spare time completely adrift of reality. <a id=\"m_4234302132218184788LPlnk603206\" class=\"m_4234302132218184788OWAAutoLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charliebaylis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.charliebaylis.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1492417234912000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHSs_s7YMlmIZekLf0cvlHXEICrAQ\"> http:\/\/www.charliebaylis.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Untitled for the many ghosts of the Mediterranean, for those that remain unknown I want to take you down to the beach I want to offer you its silence, where you are hanging under the palms there are phantoms, the phantoms are smiling I want to show you the coral shelves where we buried [&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-13681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13681","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=13681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14084,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13681\/revisions\/14084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}