{"id":15712,"date":"2018-02-18T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=15712"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:33:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:33:13","slug":"15712","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/15712\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Tarbard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gingham<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever seen a scarecrow&#8217;s babe?<br \/>\nOn a rough hessian teat nuzzling, mewling<br \/>\nat the shadow of out-of-the-way crows,<br \/>\nDeath&#8217;s hands in the sky, lunatics of dew\u2019s<br \/>\ndrench. Poultices in the shape of water<br \/>\nweep from the burdened old moon&#8217;s swollen eyes,<br \/>\nsoothe the babes ruptured gingham shoulder blades.<br \/>\nEverybody is bloodless in this house,<br \/>\nmother is a perfect silent trophy,<br \/>\nfather quietly haunts the barley field<br \/>\nilluminated in the vestige of<br \/>\nautumn\u2019s Sacred Heart, a crown of hedgerow<br \/>\nthistles adorn father\u2019s aged stingy brim.<br \/>\nHe clocks in, bound to a pagan oak cross.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>Grant Tarbard<\/strong> is an editorial assistant for <em>Three Drops From A Cauldron<\/em>, a reviewer &amp; the author of Loneliness is the <em>Machine that Drives this World<\/em> (Platypus Press). His new collection <em>Rosary of Ghosts (<\/em>Indigo Dreams) is out now.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Gingham Have you ever seen a scarecrow&#8217;s babe? On a rough hessian teat nuzzling, mewling at the shadow of out-of-the-way crows, Death&#8217;s hands in the sky, lunatics of dew\u2019s drench. Poultices in the shape of water weep from the burdened old moon&#8217;s swollen eyes, soothe the babes ruptured gingham shoulder blades. Everybody [&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":[137,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15712","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=15712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15715,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15712\/revisions\/15715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}