{"id":16689,"date":"2018-07-17T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=16689"},"modified":"2018-06-01T15:07:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T15:07:01","slug":"16689","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/16689\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pleistocene Cradle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nothing to write home about, really,<br \/>\nthese bundles of bark and reed<br \/>\nrocked back and forth<br \/>\nby the current in Bismarck\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>narrow corridor, mangrove and bamboo<br \/>\nstalks whittled down fine<br \/>\nby twenty-five<br \/>\nthousand years worth of trial<\/p>\n<p>and error to this sketchy<br \/>\noutline of a raft as it stretches<br \/>\nout over the ocean,<br \/>\na delicate film of taut skin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephen Grace<\/strong> is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Related Literature\u00a0at the University of York.\u00a0 His poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming\u00a0in <em>The Honest Ulsterman<\/em>, <em>The Literateur, The Compass<\/em>, and <em>The High Window<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Pleistocene Cradle Nothing to write home about, really, these bundles of bark and reed rocked back and forth by the current in Bismarck\u2019s narrow corridor, mangrove and bamboo stalks whittled down fine by twenty-five thousand years worth of trial and error to this sketchy outline of a raft as it stretches out [&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-16689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16689","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=16689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17074,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16689\/revisions\/17074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}