{"id":15245,"date":"2017-12-08T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=15245"},"modified":"2017-12-02T13:05:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T13:05:50","slug":"kitty-coles-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/kitty-coles-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitty Coles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Soul-Bird<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I see you walk, stiff-legged, over<br \/>\nthe shingle, I wonder whose child you are,<br \/>\nwhich widow waits for you, cursing the water.<\/p>\n<p>You spar and snatch for lukewarm chips,<br \/>\nyour bright bill jabbing vehemently, red-tipped,<br \/>\nas if you&#8217;d dipped it in a bloody sauce.<\/p>\n<p>Your breast is white and, catching light, it&#8217;s lustrous,<br \/>\nas ghosts are said to be under the moon.<br \/>\nYou lift yourself on air and sit on waves,<\/p>\n<p>undrownable, unsettled as a witch.<br \/>\nThey say your feathers know when storms are coming,<br \/>\nbringing new fellows to increase your number.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re restless so won&#8217;t let the others sleep.<br \/>\nAll night, your cries resound across the harbour,<br \/>\nwith inarticulate, relentless anger.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Kitty Coles<\/strong> lives in Surrey.\u00a0 She is one of the two winners of the Indigo Dreams Pamphlet Prize 2016 and her debut pamphlet is <em>Seal Wife<\/em>.\u00a0 Website:<a href=\"http:\/\/kittyrcoles.ajibo.org\/welcome.html\"> www.kittyrcoles.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Soul-Bird When I see you walk, stiff-legged, over the shingle, I wonder whose child you are, which widow waits for you, cursing the water. You spar and snatch for lukewarm chips, your bright bill jabbing vehemently, red-tipped, as if you&#8217;d dipped it in a bloody sauce. Your breast is white and, catching [&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-15245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15245","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=15245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15330,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15245\/revisions\/15330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}