{"id":14784,"date":"2017-11-03T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=14784"},"modified":"2017-08-04T10:26:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T10:26:29","slug":"sharon-phillips-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/sharon-phillips-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Phillips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>My mum\u2019s dream job<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There I am in the bus and I see<br \/>\nthat sun flashes off its windows<br \/>\nso light jives along the street<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if people squint<br \/>\nas the light flicks past their eyes<br \/>\nand what happens when light<br \/>\nhits a satellite dish does it<br \/>\nping off out into space<br \/>\nmaybe head back to the sun<\/p>\n<p>I sit in the hot bus and I think<br \/>\nhow I woke up early because<br \/>\nI&#8217;d seen my mum\u2019s face<br \/>\non a pink and white box<br \/>\nthat contained ponds cold cream<br \/>\nonly when I looked close her face<br \/>\nstarted to age<\/p>\n<p>although I knew she always<br \/>\nwanted to be a model I said<br \/>\nto someone I\u2019m not sure who<br \/>\nmy mum never used cold cream<br \/>\nin her life\u00a0so I don\u2019t know why<br \/>\nshe\u2019s gone and advertised it<br \/>\nnow she\u2019s dead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sharon Phillips<\/strong> retired from a career in education in 2015. Her poems have been published in\u00a0<em>Snakeskin<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Three Drops from a Cauldron<\/em>, and on <em>Algebra of Owls<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Amaryllis<\/em>. She is currently studying for an MA in Creative Writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; My mum\u2019s dream job There I am in the bus and I see that sun flashes off its windows so light jives along the street I wonder if people squint as the light flicks past their eyes and what happens when light hits a satellite dish does it ping off out into [&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-14784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14784","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=14784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14786,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14784\/revisions\/14786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}