{"id":17178,"date":"2018-09-16T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=17178"},"modified":"2018-07-29T09:20:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T09:20:54","slug":"zoe-broome-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/zoe-broome-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Broome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t Blame Eve<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nI know that a storm is due.<\/p>\n<p>Dance with me on a tin-roof<br \/>\nwhile you wait for him<br \/>\nto grab you, snatch you, toss you<br \/>\nlike so much skip-rag.<\/p>\n<p>No,<br \/>\n<em>you <\/em>won\u2019t wait<br \/>\n(although you\u2019re sure<br \/>\nyou could take him<br \/>\nif you wanted).<\/p>\n<p>Anywhere the Fee-Fie-Foe comes, you are else-<br \/>\nwhere, crouched under branches at the gard-edge, crunching cores<br \/>\n\u2018til they lodge, thick as pistols, in your throat.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t blame me.<\/p>\n<p><em>Somoene<\/em> must stay,<br \/>\nawait the Black Beard Brute<br \/>\nwhose horns scalp skin at angles.<\/p>\n<p>Flirt with him in our garden<br \/>\nwhere scorched puddles splash patio slabs.<\/p>\n<p>Deliver us to Evil.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zoe Broome<\/strong> published her first collection <i>Back To Yesterday<\/i> in May 2016 and it\u2019s available from Amazon. She finished <em>Milwordy<\/em> in May 2018 and is writing at a slower pace these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Don\u2019t Blame Eve \u00a0 I know that a storm is due. Dance with me on a tin-roof while you wait for him to grab you, snatch you, toss you like so much skip-rag. No, you won\u2019t wait (although you\u2019re sure you could take him if you wanted). Anywhere the Fee-Fie-Foe comes, you [&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-17178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17178","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=17178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17179,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17178\/revisions\/17179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}