{"id":14533,"date":"2017-09-18T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=14533"},"modified":"2017-07-23T10:57:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T10:57:59","slug":"nick-carding-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/nick-carding-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Carding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Turanj, September 1995<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>a river crossing<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\"> as over the Styx<\/span><\/p>\n<p>time hangs here<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">heavy with loss<\/span><br \/>\nsuffocating houses<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">pocked<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 56px;\">profane<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 72px;\">eviscerated<\/span><br \/>\nguts rotting whitely<br \/>\non the street<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">the private bared<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 56px;\">for anyone to see<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 72px;\">if anyone<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 72px;\">were there<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 90px;\">to see)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>above all<br \/>\na depth of silence<br \/>\nin which no bird sings<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">no dog barks<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 56px;\">no-one cries<\/span><\/p>\n<p>time<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">only time<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 56px;\">hanging heavy<\/span><br \/>\nblade of a guillotine<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">waiting to fall<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Nick Carding<\/strong> is an Englishman now living in Croatia. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in print and online in Europe, USA and Australasia.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: Turanj, south of Karlovac in Croatia, was on the front line between Croatian and Bosnian Serb forces during the conflict of 1990-1995.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Turanj, September 1995 a river crossing as over the Styx time hangs here heavy with loss suffocating houses pocked profane eviscerated guts rotting whitely on the street the private bared for anyone to see if anyone were there to see) above all a depth of silence in which no bird sings no dog [&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-14533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14533","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=14533"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14994,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14533\/revisions\/14994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}