{"id":16272,"date":"2018-05-13T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=16272"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:42:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T13:42:33","slug":"carolyn-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/carolyn-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolyn Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>late autumn places<br \/>\na universe in my hands<br \/>\na cup of hot tea<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>last night\u2019s brown-crisped leaves<br \/>\nscudding down the cul-de-sac<br \/>\nautumn\u2019s dry rain stick<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>the right to silence<br \/>\nafter hectic winds disrupt<br \/>\nthe first daffodils<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>through a telescope<br \/>\nthe ragged mountain range shrinks \u2013<br \/>\ntwin peaks, scrub pine, shade<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>robins stethoscope<br \/>\nthe lawn, earthworms hold their breath<br \/>\nspring battles begin<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>a hummingbird dines<br \/>\non orange Crocosmia<br \/>\nI close my notebook<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carolyn Martin<\/strong> is blissfully retired in Clackamas, OR, where she gardens, writes, and plays with creative friends. Her poems appear in publications throughout North America and the UK including <em>Stirring, \u00a0CALYX, Persimmon Tree<\/em>,\u00a0<em>How Higher<\/em> <em>Education Feels<\/em>, and <em>Antiphon.<\/em> Her third poetry collection, <em>Thin Places<\/em>, was released by Kelsay Books in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; * late autumn places a universe in my hands a cup of hot tea * last night\u2019s brown-crisped leaves scudding down the cul-de-sac autumn\u2019s dry rain stick * the right to silence after hectic winds disrupt the first daffodils * through a telescope the ragged mountain range shrinks \u2013 twin peaks, scrub pine, [&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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haibun-tanka-haiku-haiga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16272","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=16272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16564,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16272\/revisions\/16564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}