{"id":16660,"date":"2018-07-04T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=16660"},"modified":"2018-05-30T14:08:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T14:08:50","slug":"holly-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/holly-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Holly Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A House for Tiny Spirits<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I die, trap my soul in a birdcage<br \/>\nWith a little plastic bath, and a plastic bowl for food<br \/>\nWrap the bars in cellophane so I can\u2019t slip through<\/p>\n<p>Because I will never be ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>I will learn all the right songs to convince your guests<br \/>\nThat it\u2019s a bird in the cage, and not your dead wife<br \/>\nI will finally learn how to whistle in key.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Holly Day<\/strong>\u2019s poetry has recently appeared in <em>Big Muddy<\/em>, <em>The Cape Rock,<\/em> <em>New Ohio Review<\/em>, and <em>Gargoyle<\/em>. Her newest poetry collections, <em>A Perfect Day for Semaphore <\/em>(Finishing Line Press),\u00a0 <em>I&#8217;m in a Place Where Reason Went Missing <\/em>(Main Street Rag Publishing Co.), and <em>Where We Went Wrong<\/em> (Clare Songbirds Publishing)\u00a0 will be out mid-2018, with <em>The Yellow Dot of a Daisy<\/em> already out on Alien Buddha Press.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; A House for Tiny Spirits When I die, trap my soul in a birdcage With a little plastic bath, and a plastic bowl for food Wrap the bars in cellophane so I can\u2019t slip through Because I will never be ready to go. I will learn all the right songs to convince [&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-16660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16660","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=16660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16661,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16660\/revisions\/16661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}