{"id":16427,"date":"2018-06-15T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=16427"},"modified":"2018-04-13T09:25:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T09:25:57","slug":"sue-spiers-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/sue-spiers-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Sue Spiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wider When Standing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>After Les Murray<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lower gravity means less weight<br \/>\nand a woman is wider upright.<br \/>\nPhonophobia is a natural fear of loudness.<br \/>\nYou may fear your own voice.<br \/>\nNorway is the happiest country in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>A whip crack breaks the speed of sound.<br \/>\nLower gravity means less weight<br \/>\nand a woman is wider when standing.<br \/>\nDonald \u2018Duck\u2019 Dunn played with Booker T<br \/>\nand the MGs who created Soul Limbo.<\/p>\n<p>A cricket\u2019s chirp is made by stridulation<br \/>\nbut only the males do it to attract females.<br \/>\nNo earwig tunnels into your brain<br \/>\nto lay eggs but they have two penises.<br \/>\nFour minutes, thirty-three seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Lower gravity means less weight<br \/>\nand Ecstasy was originally used<br \/>\nin psychological warfare to lower<br \/>\ninhibitions. It became the hottest thing<br \/>\nin the search for happiness by chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>Zazen focuses on posture and breathing.<br \/>\nQuiet is where we go to see ourselves,<br \/>\na meditation on nothing, a negation of noise,<br \/>\neven if silence is recorded, the recorder<br \/>\nwhirs, the orchestra inhales, exhales.<\/p>\n<p>Five hundred trees have visited the moon.<br \/>\nGood health is the slowest form of death.<br \/>\nImelda\u2019s shoe stash was eaten by termites.<br \/>\nLower gravity means less weight.<br \/>\nNothing hears you scream in space.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sue Spiers<\/strong> helps out a bit with Winchester Poetry Festival and British Mensa\u2019s Poetry SIG while encouraging editors to include bits, thanks Helen. South Bank Poetry has her \u2018Breast\u2019 and Bloodaxe has her \u2018Fanny Farts\u2019. \u00a0@spiropoetry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Wider When Standing After Les Murray Lower gravity means less weight and a woman is wider upright. Phonophobia is a natural fear of loudness. You may fear your own voice. Norway is the happiest country in 2017. A whip crack breaks the speed of sound. Lower gravity means less weight and a woman [&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-16427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16427","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=16427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16847,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16427\/revisions\/16847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}