{"id":17174,"date":"2018-09-15T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=17174"},"modified":"2018-07-29T09:10:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T09:10:18","slug":"matt-duggan-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/matt-duggan-7\/","title":{"rendered":"John Vickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oberwolfach<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> \u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nTravelling on a local train,<br \/>\nNot knowing a colleague\u2019s name,<br \/>\nInside the guard room on metal benches.<br \/>\nI dream of fatherhood,<br \/>\nOne whose body never changes<br \/>\nThe beneath of the tracks.<br \/>\nThe momento mori where I survive<br \/>\nIn devious flakes. The Black Forest<br \/>\nBackdrop and gateau and beer<br \/>\nReading Stephen King, someone aims<br \/>\nTo be a cosmonaut. Oberwolfach,<br \/>\nThe single fly keeping one awake<br \/>\nThrough the night, where one no longer senses<br \/>\nThe lights on the garage across the hill,<br \/>\nOn the single road, that sells cigarettes and alcohol.<br \/>\nA blemish on the lungs<br \/>\nThe rhizomatic alveoli, difference and repetition.<br \/>\nI can only rotate my midnight walks in the dark ether.<br \/>\nTo drink alone the different mathematical areas.<br \/>\nAnd again, accelerating towards<br \/>\nThe dry, brittle cold of Berlin<br \/>\nWhere the freezing lakes<br \/>\nEnvelop the city\u2019s historical regrets,<br \/>\nThe odour of the Unterbahn<br \/>\nWhere one waits patiently for a signal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr John Vickers<\/strong> has published over 50 poems in UK Journals including <em>Smiths Knoll, Under The Radar, Orbis, The Lighthouse, The Journal, Brittle Star.<\/em> He mini-blogs at <a href=\"https:\/\/johnvickerstopos.weebly.com\">https:\/\/johnvickerstopos.weebly.com<\/a>. Mathematician , Poet, Philosopher, Psychoanalyst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Oberwolfach \u00a0 Travelling on a local train, Not knowing a colleague\u2019s name, Inside the guard room on metal benches. I dream of fatherhood, One whose body never changes The beneath of the tracks. The momento mori where I survive In devious flakes. The Black Forest Backdrop and gateau and beer Reading Stephen King, [&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-17174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17174","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=17174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17177,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17174\/revisions\/17177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}