{"id":1745,"date":"2009-06-18T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2009-06-18T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T19:49:00","slug":"kate-mitchells-flame-in-waning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/kate-mitchells-flame-in-waning\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Mitchell's flame in waning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wax Days<\/span>


The days they melt<\/span>
Cascading down like<\/span>
Wax descending your candle<\/span>
Falling into each other until<\/span>
They harden<\/span>
And freeze in time<\/span>
Frozen over in this cold, cold city<\/span>
Bitter winds and harsher hearts<\/span>
Do you remember bedroom wall hieroglyphics?<\/span>
Written in pencil<\/span>
To be erased with the memory<\/span>
Of stable times<\/span>
What I would give for one autumn day<\/span>
The crunch of leaves under heavy feet<\/span>
And heavier hearts<\/span>
Would be the sweetest melody<\/span>

My flame is waning <\/span>
Flickering<\/span>
In and out of consciousness<\/span>
Tonight, just this one night<\/span>
I want to burn<\/span>
I want to cast shadows<\/span>
Into the darkness<\/span>
Of figures from happier times<\/span>
Tonight <\/span>
I want to shine<\/span>


<\/font>* Kathryn Mitchell<\/span> is a 21-year-old student living in New York City, where she majors in How to graduate from NYU without being a sarcastic, pretentious asshole<\/span>.
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Wax DaysThe days they meltCascading down likeWax descending your candleFalling into each other untilThey hardenAnd freeze in timeFrozen over in this cold, cold cityBitter winds and harsher heartsDo you remember bedroom wall hieroglyphics?Written in pencilTo be erased with the memoryOf stable timesWhat I would give for one autumn dayThe crunch of leaves under heavy feetAnd […]<\/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-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","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=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}