{"id":17199,"date":"2018-09-23T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=17199"},"modified":"2018-10-03T14:47:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T14:47:41","slug":"amanda-oosthuizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/amanda-oosthuizen\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Oosthuizen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Concert at the Doge\u2019s Palace with Fans<\/b><\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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I\u2019m chased by airbnb on facebook, instagram,<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
twitter, Ebay, there is its fluttering gif, checking<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
me out, even on\u00a0booking.com, which is perverse.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
I search for Palladium, Copernicum, Moscovium.\u00a0<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
\u00a398 a night, it blares. But hopefully less, I think.\u00a0<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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I sleep in a crumbling palace behind a shabby door,<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
and one afternoon, taste an orange Aperol spritz\u00a0<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
in the shadows of a backstreet bar, listening to the cheesy\u00a0<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
songs of gondoliers.\u00a0<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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A Danish man pulls up a chair, tells me he\u2019s lost and frightened.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
\u2018No one knows I\u2019m here,\u2019 he says. I search his case<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
of bagged-up shoes and clean, pressed shirts\u00a0<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
for a sign, a clue that might help, but all I can do<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
is put his phone on charge.\u00a0<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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One steamy night when the Doge\u2019s Palace\u00a0<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
is abandoned by visitors; in my bright green dress<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
with its too-tight belt and my shoes like rooks, I believe<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
I\u2019m a lion. With linen fans on beechwood struts,\u00a0<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
the air is wafted in violent beat to lute, crumhorn,\u00a0<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
portative organ. Lyrics tell of journeys over Adriatic\u00a0<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
seas and long-gone people searching\u00a0<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
for the element of surprise.<\/div>\n

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Amanda Oosthuizen<\/strong>\u2019s stories and poems have featured on the London Underground, in art galleries, Winchester Cathedral, in anthologies and numerous competition listings. Recent work is at\u00a0Cosmonauts Avenue, Storgy, Under the Radar, Ellipsis, 3:AM<\/i>,\u00a0Magma<\/i>,\u00a0Somewhere\u00a0to keep\u00a0the Rain<\/i>,\u00a0<\/i>the\u00a0<\/i><\/span>Pre-Raphaelite Society’s\u00a0Review<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span><\/i>and is forthcoming in\u00a0LossLit, Riggwelter<\/i>,\u00a0Cabinet of Heed<\/i>,\u00a0Prelude, Humanagerie\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Ambit.\u00a0<\/i>She earns her living by writing and arranging music and teaching woodwind.\u00a0<\/span>http:\/\/<\/span><\/a>amandaoosthuizen.com<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      A Concert at the Doge\u2019s Palace with Fans \u00a0 I\u2019m chased by airbnb on facebook, instagram, twitter, Ebay, there is its fluttering gif, checking me out, even on\u00a0booking.com, which is perverse. I search for Palladium, Copernicum, Moscovium.\u00a0 \u00a398 a night, it blares. But hopefully less, I think.\u00a0 \u00a0 I sleep in a […]<\/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-17199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17199","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=17199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17455,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17199\/revisions\/17455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}