{"id":15674,"date":"2018-02-10T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=15674"},"modified":"2018-02-09T13:21:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:21:19","slug":"diarmuid-fitzgerald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/diarmuid-fitzgerald\/","title":{"rendered":"Diarmuid Fitzgerald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>upturned boat<br \/>\nwind whipped sand<br \/>\nwipes it clean<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>from the train window<br \/>\nconcrete, more concrete \u2026<br \/>\nfinally cherry blossoms<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>windy day \u2014<br \/>\ncleaning the mountain of litter<br \/>\nripple in the ferns<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>wild garlic<br \/>\nits smell lingers<br \/>\namong unidentified grass<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>warmth of the sun<br \/>\non my skin \u2014<br \/>\nfirst midgets of spring<\/p>\n<p>*<br \/>\nclouds break \u2014<br \/>\na sun-wheel<br \/>\nnow the beat of wings<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diarmuid Fitzgerald<\/strong> was born in Ireland in 1977 where he lives. His first collection of haiku Thames Way was published in 2015 by Alba Publishing. He has finished a second collection in manuscript form called A Thousand Sparks. <a href=\"https:\/\/deewriter.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/deewriter.com<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fitzwriter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fitzwriter\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; * upturned boat wind whipped sand wipes it clean * from the train window concrete, more concrete \u2026 finally cherry blossoms * windy day \u2014 cleaning the mountain of litter ripple in the ferns * wild garlic its smell lingers among unidentified grass * warmth of the sun on my skin \u2014 first midgets [&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-15674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15674","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=15674"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15777,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15674\/revisions\/15777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}