{"id":15265,"date":"2017-12-14T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=15265"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:25:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:25:56","slug":"maureen-curran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/maureen-curran\/","title":{"rendered":"Maureen Curran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dairy tale<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is the first twin thefts I like least<br \/>\nHer calf stolen<br \/>\nHer milk stolen<\/p>\n<p>Then the theft of her wandering<br \/>\nHer daylight stolen<br \/>\nHer grazing stolen<\/p>\n<p>There is the theft of her name<br \/>\nHer Daisy stolen<br \/>\nHer Henrietta stolen<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention the theft of her standing<br \/>\nFor she was Bo Finn<br \/>\nShe was Bo Ruadh, Bo Dhubh<\/p>\n<p>Next the theft of her twenty years<br \/>\nHer udders swollen, lifespan stolen<br \/>\nHer short life slit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maureen Curran<\/strong> is from Donegal, Ireland. Her poems are published widely in journals and can be read online at <em>Honest Ulsterman, Lake Poetry, Southword, Spontaneity, Word Bohemia<\/em>. She blogs with her group at <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenroomwritersdonegal.blogspot.ie\/\">http:\/\/gardenroomwritersdonegal.blogspot.ie\/<\/a> and tweets @maureenwcurran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Dairy tale It is the first twin thefts I like least Her calf stolen Her milk stolen Then the theft of her wandering Her daylight stolen Her grazing stolen There is the theft of her name Her Daisy stolen Her Henrietta stolen Not to mention the theft of her standing For she [&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":[136,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15265","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=15265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15266,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15265\/revisions\/15266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}