{"id":15683,"date":"2018-02-13T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=15683"},"modified":"2018-01-26T12:53:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T12:53:22","slug":"15683","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/15683\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Bowan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Sartre in the park.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">It is October and yet I left home without a jacket<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">This warmth is nauseating<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The pale orange horizon brings memory of sickly sweet <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Summers<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Come and gone<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The cloud angel-whipped across the<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Whole<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Sky<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Will not disconnect<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Will not relinquish its force<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Weighing upon you effortlessly<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Like the fat school bully<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Pinning you to the grey playground concrete<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">It is October but I left home without a jacket<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The scientist explains the colour<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Is born of desert sand and distant fire<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">And a hurricane\u2019s dying breath<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Our star glows Apocalypse Red<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Meaningless and bored<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">He hangs there observing<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Holding on for his sister to take over the<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Night shift.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan Bowan<\/strong> lives in South East London and writes prose\/poetry and short stories. He has been writing for over 15 years been published in various independent magazines and art papers.\u00a0 See more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/channelzeroprose.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.channelzeroprose.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2425059052676622789gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo ajU\">\n<div id=\":td\" class=\"ajR\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Hide expanded content\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ajT\" src=\"https:\/\/ssl.gstatic.com\/ui\/v1\/icons\/mail\/images\/cleardot.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Sartre in the park. \u00a0 It is October and yet I left home without a jacket This warmth is nauseating The pale orange horizon brings memory of sickly sweet Summers Come and gone The cloud angel-whipped across the Whole Sky Will not disconnect Will not relinquish its force Weighing upon you effortlessly [&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-15683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15683","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=15683"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15689,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15683\/revisions\/15689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}