{"id":1649,"date":"2009-04-01T00:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2009-04-01T00:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T00:28:00","slug":"sarah-hilary-is-looking-at-glass-and-rust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/sarah-hilary-is-looking-at-glass-and-rust\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Hilary is looking at glass and rust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><meta http-equiv=\"CONTENT-TYPE\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><title><\/title><meta name=\"GENERATOR\" content=\"StarOffice 8 ASUS Edition (Linux)\"><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t<!--\n\t\t@page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in }\n\t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.08in }\n\t-->\n\t<\/style>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><font size=\"2\"><span lang=\"en\"><b>Glass<\/b><\/span><\/font><font size=\"2\"><span lang=\"en\"><\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\ndesert marshals sand<br \/>in warfare.<\/p>\n<p>Hustles it<br \/>dust driven<br \/>\ninto the compressors of aircraft<br \/>whose engines eat <br \/>heat.<\/p>\n<p>Fired,<br \/>\nthe sand becomes<br \/>glass:<br \/>a blown heart holding hot <br \/>steel in<br \/>\nits hollow hands.<\/p>\n<p>It breaks<br \/>the heart<br \/>sends daggers of<br \/>\nglass to burrow bright<br \/>back in sand:<br \/>desert.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">~ ~ ~ ~ ~<\/span><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><font size=\"2\"><span lang=\"en\"><b>Rust<\/b><\/span><\/font><font size=\"2\"><span lang=\"en\"><\/p>\n<p>Steels<br \/>\nwants to be iron oxide<br \/>I\u2019m told by a scientist:<br \/>\u2018We dig it<br \/>\nup and beat it<br \/>into steel, but it doesn\u2019t last.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In<br \/>\neach shiny sheet<br \/>polished rod<br \/>kettle, can, car and<br \/>\nplane<br \/>train;<\/p>\n<p>foundations of a<br \/>\nthousand<br \/>high-rises<br \/>sky-scraping, cloud-grazing<\/p>\n<p>there is<br \/>\na ruddy heart<br \/>that rusts<br \/>lusts to be itself again. To<br \/><\/span><\/font><font size=\"2\"><span lang=\"en\">corrode,<br \/>\ncollapse, return to<br \/>iron<br \/>its flavour like blood <br \/>beating<br \/>\nunder our feet.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><font size=\"2\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><font size=\"2\">* Sarah Hilary is an award winning writer whose fiction has ap<\/font><font style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" size=\"2\"><span lang=\"en\"><\/span><\/font><font style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" size=\"2\">peared in a range of publications including <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Smokelong Quarterly<\/span> and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Fish Anthology 2008<\/span>. A column about the wartime experiences of her mother, who was a child internee of the Japanese, will be published in the Spring &#39;09 edition of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">foto8<\/span> magazine.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarah-crawl-space.blogspot.com\"><font style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" size=\"2\">www.sarah-crawl-space.blogspot.com<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glass The desert marshals sandin warfare. Hustles itdust driven into the compressors of aircraftwhose engines eat heat. Fired, the sand becomesglass:a blown heart holding hot steel in its hollow hands. It breaksthe heartsends daggers of glass to burrow brightback in sand:desert. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~Rust Steels wants to be iron oxideI\u2019m told by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}