{"id":14722,"date":"2017-10-13T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=14722"},"modified":"2017-11-04T11:04:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T11:04:11","slug":"sarah-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/sarah-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moomin\u2019s Dream<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moomin bit his tongue<br \/>\na forget-me-not token<br \/>\nof excess flourished<br \/>\nhis last night-terror<br \/>\na dark hallway<br \/>\nan echo<br \/>\nfollows<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">13 steps<\/span><br \/>\nan amber glow<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">the sign of 13<\/span><br \/>\nMoomin\u2019s ball and chain<br \/>\nrhyme<br \/>\ndissolves in an acid rain<br \/>\nephemera<br \/>\nmarking stonework<br \/>\nhe sees words<br \/>\nemerge, bob,<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">bob, balance<\/span><br \/>\nlike buoys<br \/>\nlike rhythms ripping<br \/>\ntides of Sisyphean repetition\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 end stop<\/p>\n<p>Moomin longs for the body<br \/>\nan endless deconstructed bag<br \/>\njoining lips to the stop\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 end stop<br \/>\nhe can\u2019t stop reading theory\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 stop<\/p>\n<p>unscramble\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Speak plain! Screams Moomin <\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 56px;\">clasping his cheeks<\/span><br \/>\nsurrounded by a swirl of colour<\/p>\n<p>Snorkmaiden dances\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<em><br \/>\n<\/em>behind him\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 shells<br \/>\nin her hair\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>She\u2019s confused you for a machine, Moomin says to himself<\/em><br \/>\nthis unending war<br \/>\nbetween us<br \/>\n\u2018Morris would never<br \/>\npaint a fringe like that\u2019\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Another might, Moomin reasons\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><br \/>\nshe carries out preordained<br \/>\nmotions a Wildean parody<br \/>\nof seashore<\/p>\n<p>where ocean drift is tapestry<br \/>\nscenes invoking conjuring tricks<br \/>\nan umbrella<br \/>\na hat stand,<br \/>\na dragon painted<br \/>\nkite trailing silk<br \/>\nribbons<br \/>\nall pulled from Snorkmaiden\u2019s<br \/>\nsea-sick sense<br \/>\nof loss \u2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em>Poor Snorkmaiden, sighs Moomin, she has no voice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>a rabbit hole of mimsy<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sarah Cave<\/strong> is currently studying for an MA in Poetry at Royal Holloway. She has had poetry, reviews and stories published in magazines including <em>Tears in the Fence, Shearsman<\/em> and<em> Oxford Poetry Magazine<\/em>. She has a small pamphlet, <em>Cast on Ice, <\/em>published by Smallminded Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Moomin\u2019s Dream Moomin bit his tongue a forget-me-not token of excess flourished his last night-terror a dark hallway an echo follows 13 steps an amber glow the sign of 13 Moomin\u2019s ball and chain rhyme dissolves in an acid rain ephemera marking stonework he sees words emerge, bob, bob, balance like buoys like rhythms [&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-14722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14722","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=14722"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15138,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14722\/revisions\/15138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}