{"id":17592,"date":"2018-10-23T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=17592"},"modified":"2018-10-15T11:46:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T11:46:50","slug":"jenny-mcrobert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/jenny-mcrobert\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenny McRobert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jezebel \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since the dogs had devoured her flesh, their faces painted red,<br \/>\nso that their teeth appeared white as chalk headstones,<br \/>\nher bones became jealous and rose up, placing themselves<br \/>\nbefore her mirror, the index finger of the right hand twitched<br \/>\ntowards the rouge, applying it to the cheeks of her skull<br \/>\nwith surprising dexterity, then plonked a tiara on her hairless head<br \/>\nwhich skated around like a child\u2019s first spin on newly formed ice,<br \/>\ncreating a whirlwind in which two emeralds, green as Babylon,<br \/>\nrose out of her jewel box, caught the setting sun, fired stripes of crazed light<br \/>\nacross the walls, bouncing off her bony feet like dancing girls at a wedding feast,<br \/>\nbefore jumping into her eye sockets,<br \/>\nlooking down in reverent memory of her breasts,<br \/>\nprompting her to gather fine linen around her rattling rib cage,<br \/>\nplace inside two ripe pomegranates:<br \/>\njuice smeared in perfect redness around her teeth,<br \/>\npelvis thrust forward onto the window sill like the rising moon,<br \/>\nfeeling quite satisfied, once again<br \/>\nshe leaned out of the window and defied the dogs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Jenny McRobert<\/strong>: Making the transition from Psychologist to poet has been Jenny\u2019s most pleasurable journey.\u00a0 Despite being taught it at school, poetry is her passion.\u00a0Published poems: <i>\u2018Touched\u2019<\/i> Picaroon Poetry Issue #12 May 2018.\u00a0 Two more will appear in \u2018The High Window.\u2019<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Jezebel \u00a0 Since the dogs had devoured her flesh, their faces painted red, so that their teeth appeared white as chalk headstones, her bones became jealous and rose up, placing themselves before her mirror, the index finger of the right hand twitched towards the rouge, applying it to the cheeks of her [&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-17592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17592","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=17592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17593,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17592\/revisions\/17593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}