{"id":14449,"date":"2017-08-22T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=14449"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:42:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T13:42:33","slug":"charles-tarlton-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/charles-tarlton-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Tarlton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>TIME, GENTLEMEN, TIME<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>CARMODY: We ought not take too long describing the winds or the leaves that<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 dance along them. Ah.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>BLIGHT: What the older man knows. That\u2019s my objective.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">Then you tell the truth,<br \/>\nwhen you shift your focus onto<br \/>\nthings that bubble up<br \/>\nfrom below, stark underneath,<br \/>\nyou can\u2019t stop them coming up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">His mouth hangs widely<br \/>\nopen, his truths unable<br \/>\nto form themselves<br \/>\ninto solid things, they flutter<br \/>\non the stale wind of his breath.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">When time is spent,<br \/>\nand once spent not to be found<br \/>\nagain. All the things<br \/>\nI did but can\u2019t remember, how<br \/>\nlove slides away like a dream.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Charles Tarlton<\/strong> is a retired professor living and writing poetry in Northampton, MA with his wife, Ann Knickerbocker, an abstract painter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; TIME, GENTLEMEN, TIME CARMODY: We ought not take too long describing the winds or the leaves that \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 dance along them. Ah. BLIGHT: What the older man knows. That\u2019s my objective.\u00a0 Then you tell the truth, when you shift your focus onto things that bubble up from below, stark underneath, you can\u2019t [&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":[136,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-poetry-picks","category-haibun-tanka-haiku-haiga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14449","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=14449"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14456,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14449\/revisions\/14456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}