{"id":15558,"date":"2018-02-01T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=15558"},"modified":"2018-02-01T09:13:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T09:13:29","slug":"barry-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/barry-gray\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>You Can Hear the Screws Go In<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can hear the screws go in,<br \/>\nforcing a way through,<br \/>\ncrushing resistance as they penetrate,<br \/>\na few squeaks as they tighten up.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">It\u2019s safe now, locked down;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">you\u2019ve put the lid on it.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">But listen:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">Inside it still rattles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barry Gray<\/strong> lives in Bristol.\u00a0 A handful of his early poems appeared in the little \u201cUnderground\u201d magazines of the early 1970s. He then wrote no poetry for about 25 years.\u00a0 His more recent poems have appeared in assorted publications and he has been long-listed in the National Poetry Competition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 &nbsp; &nbsp; You Can Hear the Screws Go In You can hear the screws go in, forcing a way through, crushing resistance as they penetrate, a few squeaks as they tighten up. It\u2019s safe now, locked down; you\u2019ve put the lid on it. But listen: Inside it still rattles. &nbsp; &nbsp; Barry Gray lives [&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-15558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15558","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=15558"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15746,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15558\/revisions\/15746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}