{"id":17224,"date":"2018-10-02T02:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T02:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=17224"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:37:14","slug":"abegail-morley-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/abegail-morley-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Abegail Morley"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Accidental<\/b><\/p>\n

Yesterday I forgot you entirely \u2012 well almost. I forgot
\nhow you died at least, and today I realise I might have, in error,
\nsliced the roots of the rose you love, and in the low-setting sun
\ncan almost forgive myself. But not quite.<\/p>\n

I know you flinch like sea stopped on the beach, pooling
\nitself like a myth in the cold, and February\u2019s naked air slowly realises
\nits been struck by you jumping from a quiet cliff,
\nmid-week, when everything is supposed to be ordinary.<\/p>\n

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Abegail Morley<\/strong>‘s\u00a0recent collection is The Skin Diary<\/em> (Nine Arches). Her debut was shortlisted for the Forward Prize. She was\u201cOne of the Five British Poets to Watch in 2017\u201d (<\/span><\/a>Huffington Post<\/em>), edits The Poetry Shed<\/em> and is co-editor of Against the Grain Poetry Press.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Accidental Yesterday I forgot you entirely \u2012 well almost. I forgot how you died at least, and today I realise I might have, in error, sliced the roots of the rose you love, and in the low-setting sun can almost forgive myself. But not quite. I know you flinch like sea stopped […]<\/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":[137,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17224","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=17224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17519,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17224\/revisions\/17519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}