{"id":16641,"date":"2018-06-27T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=16641"},"modified":"2018-05-30T11:34:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T11:34:45","slug":"hannah-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/hannah-welfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Welfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alter Ego<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A cardboard coffin<br \/>\nSmall as a shoebox<br \/>\nAnd filled with stones<\/p>\n<p>And tiny bones<\/p>\n<p>I take it to the<br \/>\nWood<\/p>\n<p>No good<br \/>\nShall come of this<\/p>\n<p>This morning<br \/>\nI painted my face away<\/p>\n<p>And cut off my hair<br \/>\nI left my long red locks<br \/>\nFor the birds<br \/>\nTo line their nests<\/p>\n<p>Where go you?<br \/>\nAsks the rook<br \/>\nThat grants me<br \/>\nHis narrative gaze<\/p>\n<p>Little girl<br \/>\nIn your<br \/>\nCloak of cobwebs<br \/>\nWhere do you go?<\/p>\n<p>Lend me your<br \/>\nCape<br \/>\nAnd I will<br \/>\nGive you wings<br \/>\nThe colour of silence<\/p>\n<p>Carry your coffin<br \/>\nOf bones and rocks<br \/>\nOn the spread of your span<\/p>\n<p>Use your talons<br \/>\nTo scratch earth<br \/>\nAnd dig<\/p>\n<p>Cover<br \/>\nThe tilled<br \/>\nGrave<br \/>\nWith anemone<br \/>\nAnd wild garlic<\/p>\n<p>Fly home to me<br \/>\nAnd I will return you<br \/>\nTo a form so<br \/>\nWitching<\/p>\n<p>That nothing<br \/>\nBut the voice in your<br \/>\nThroat<\/p>\n<p>Will ever<br \/>\nBreak bones again<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hannah Welfare<\/strong> has been published in <em>First Time, Brittle Star, The Linnet\u2019s Wings, Fat Damsel, Miracle Magazine, Obsessed With Pipework<\/em> and other magazines.\u00a0 She has had two collections of poetry (\u201cGarden Of Ghosts\u201d and \u201cInsect Nights\u201d) published by KT Publications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Alter Ego A cardboard coffin Small as a shoebox And filled with stones And tiny bones I take it to the Wood No good Shall come of this This morning I painted my face away And cut off my hair I left my long red locks For the birds To line their [&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-16641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16641","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=16641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16642,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16641\/revisions\/16642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}