{"id":1686,"date":"2009-04-29T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2009-04-29T08:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T08:02:00","slug":"helen-pletts-is-riding-the-prague-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/helen-pletts-is-riding-the-prague-metro\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Pletts is riding the Prague Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prague Metro<\/span>
 <\/span>

The single glove<\/span>
resting above<\/span>
the button-click-press<\/span>
peel-paint-scraped<\/span>
ticket machine,<\/span>
 <\/span>
where the coins<\/span>
are rust-rubbed, roughly,<\/span>
beside the slot<\/span>
to make them easier to digest<\/span>
before the ticker-tick paper regurgitation.<\/span>
 <\/span>
Heel-click-turns behind me, crowd proceed <\/span>
to the snake-mouth-slit-click ticket stamp,<\/span>
to be side-stepped, swiftly to the stairs,<\/span>
with the force-flow of frost tunnelled air<\/span>
push-pressed ahead.<\/span>
 <\/span>
The suck-seal break of rubber<\/span>
slides back,<\/span>
before the off-tune duo<\/span>
resonate-departure-notes<\/span>
tirelessly trill.<\/span>


<\/font>*
\nHelen Pletts is a regular IS&T contributor. She was born in the UK
\nbut now lives in Prague in the Czech Republic, where she teaches
\ncreative writing. Her latest collection can be bought via the IS&T chapbook shop. You are welcome to visit www.stem-of-quietly-disarrayed-fertility.com<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prague Metro The single gloveresting abovethe button-click-presspeel-paint-scrapedticket machine, where the coinsare rust-rubbed, roughly,beside the slotto make them easier to digestbefore the ticker-tick paper regurgitation. Heel-click-turns behind me, crowd proceed to the snake-mouth-slit-click ticket stamp,to be side-stepped, swiftly to the stairs,with the force-flow of frost tunnelled airpush-pressed ahead. The suck-seal break of rubberslides back,before the off-tune duoresonate-departure-notestirelessly trill.* Helen Pletts […]<\/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-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","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=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}