{"id":13803,"date":"2017-07-31T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=13803"},"modified":"2017-04-17T14:42:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T14:42:18","slug":"lesley-quayle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/lesley-quayle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesley Quayle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Woman Who Writes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A woman who writes feels too much<\/em>. Anne Sexton<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a price to pay,<br \/>\nalways trying to outstare the sun and not go blind.<br \/>\nThis handful of words, skin peeled from flesh,<br \/>\nspreads out like a stain, is the genie loosed from your heart.<\/p>\n<p>You spotlight life or death<br \/>\nbut the passion is never simple, you are as inward<br \/>\nand as outward as a maze, your voyages smash<br \/>\nagainst the stars or slip beneath rolling oceans.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a strange house you live in,<br \/>\nnot hostile, full of embryos and ghosts,<br \/>\nwhere men and children, food and dust,<br \/>\nthe friendly, confessional company of women,<br \/>\nare not enough\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspirinworks.com\/ordering-valtrex-online\/\">buy valtrex 500mg<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 are much too much.<br \/>\nEach day breaks over you with startling light,<br \/>\nnights clasp you in their shuddering dark.<\/p>\n<p>You are chameleon, the invisible eavesdropper,<br \/>\nhearing the breath beneath whispers as bombs or choirs.<br \/>\nFill your ears with lead, your mouth with salt,<br \/>\ncast out your eyes &#8211; you still feel too much.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesley Quayle<\/strong> is a prizewinning poet and a folk\/blues singer currently living in Dorset. She has a collection (<em>Sessions<\/em> \u2013 Indigo Dreams) and a chapbook (<em>Songs For Lesser Gods<\/em> \u2013 erbacce) and is currently working on another collection and her first novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; A Woman Who Writes A woman who writes feels too much. Anne Sexton There\u2019s a price to pay, always trying to outstare the sun and not go blind. This handful of words, skin peeled from flesh, spreads out like a stain, is the genie loosed from your heart. You spotlight life or [&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-13803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13803","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=13803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13804,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13803\/revisions\/13804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}