{"id":16650,"date":"2018-06-29T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=16650"},"modified":"2018-05-30T13:09:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T13:09:42","slug":"lee-nash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/lee-nash-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Nash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fallout<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It worries me that she <em>shagged him on his desk<\/em>.<br \/>\nI think of her bad back. I think it may not be that bad.<br \/>\nI think that this only happens in <em>Cosmo<\/em><br \/>\nand that thought makes me feel naive.<br \/>\nI think there is something wrong with me \u2013<br \/>\nI have not shagged anyone on a desk (so far).<br \/>\nI worry over the details. If it was daytime.<br \/>\nIf his secretary was at <em>her<\/em> desk. If the door was locked.<br \/>\nWas my file on the desk at the time? Her file?<br \/>\nWas this the first and only time on the desk?<br \/>\nIf she could be more precise, was it <em>up against the desk<\/em>?<br \/>\nThis is the desk I sat down at in my hour of need.<br \/>\nSomehow I feel betrayed. She implies I am jealous.<br \/>\nWe are so different. By now she has ordered a steak.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lee Nash<\/strong>&#8216;s poems have appeared in print and online journals including <i>Acorn, Ambit, Angle<\/i>, <i>Magma, Mezzo Cammin, Orbis<\/i>,<i> Poetry Salzburg Review<\/i>, <i>Sentinel Literary Quarterly<\/i>, <i>The Heron&#8217;s Nest<\/i> and <i>The Lake<\/i>. Her poetry collection <i>Ash Keys<\/i> is published by Flutter Press. <a href=\"http:\/\/leenashpoetry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/leenashpoetry.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1527756158915000&amp;usg=AFQjCNED0ly9L957x-Qsrg1yWwCyXONUCg\">leenashpoetry.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Fallout It worries me that she shagged him on his desk. I think of her bad back. I think it may not be that bad. I think that this only happens in Cosmo and that thought makes me feel naive. I think there is something wrong with me \u2013 I have not [&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-16650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16650","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=16650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16901,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16650\/revisions\/16901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}